Blaser Mills Law has won a landmark case in football concerning force majeure and Covid-19 Head of sport at the firm and former professional football player, David Winnie, was successful in his claim to the FIFA Football Tribunal on behalf of Dutch football coach, René Hiddink, against his former employer, Football Association of Maldives [FAM]. The…
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For the first time, FIFA will launch new football video games developed with third-party studios and publishers, providing “more choice for football and gaming fans” in the lead-up to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ and FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™ A number of new non-simulation games are already under production…
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Yesterday, the World Rugby Council unanimously voted to officially select the United States as the host nation of the 2031 Men’s Rugby World Cup and the 2033 Women’s Rugby World Cup. Hogan Lovells partner Michael Kuh, who has a market-leading sports event acquisition practice at Hogan Lovells, was the lead outside counsel for the successful…
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By LEAD1 Association When the NCAA implemented its Interim NIL Policy on July 1, 2021, and the Congress failed to pass an NIL bill, it meant that all college athletes would be able to monetize their rights of publicity, except for possibly one group of athletes – those international athletes on F-1 visas, which greatly…
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Hackney Publications announced today that its readers have identified Power Cronin Ltd. as one of a handful of law firms that are leaders in the sports law field in its annual Roster of “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About.” Besides recognizing law firms for their achievements, the portal serves as a resource for…
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Hackney Publications announced today that its readers have identified PARRON LAW® as one of a handful of law firms that are leaders in the Sports Law field in its annual Roster of “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About.” The PARRON LAW® sports group is led by attorney Ivan Parron® with over twenty-five years’ experience as…
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LEAD1 will continue to host a number of virtual forums for ADs, coaches, administrators and other stakeholders to guide them how to navigate complex and uncharted new realities, including one on April 19 that addresses “Everything You Need to Know about the NIL and International College Athlete Issue.” The session is described as follows: “When…
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By Robert J. Romano, JD, LLM, Senior Writer, and Devin Morgan, MS in Sport Management Candidate, St. John’s University Initially, FIFA, soccer’s global governing body responsible for the organization and promotion of international soccer tournaments including the men’s and women’s World Cup events, was only going to forbid Russia from hosting any international soccer games during…
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Benoit Girardin, a professor in sports law at McGill, Ottawa and HEC Montréal universities and legal counsel for many sport organizations in Canada, has been named as sport law analyst by Radio Canada for the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games and as ombudsperson by the Canadian Paralympic Committee for the 2022 Paralympic Games Girardin, President and…
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(What follows are the leads from each of five case summaries in the latest Sports Litigation Alert, the nation’s leading sports law periodical. Published for 18 years, the Alert features a searchable archive of 3,000 mostly original articles, which subscribers have access to. In addition, approximately 75 sports law professors use the Alert in the…
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