(Editor’s note: The following is one of five case summaries in the latest Sports Litigation Alert. Subscribers have access to more than 5,000 case summaries and sports law articles. To subscribe, visit here.) A federal judge from the Western District of Washington has granted an insurance company’s motion for summary judgement in a case in…
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Backed by dozens of documents from the US Tennis Association (USTA) “showing a callous disregard for the safety of athletes,” leading sexual abuse advocates are calling for Congressional intervention and an investigation into USTA leadership. Nancy Hogshead, Olympic champion, civil rights lawyer, and CEO of Champion Women, a nonprofit providing legal advocacy for girls and…
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Michigan State University Head Football Mel Tucker has released a statement through his attorney, defending himself against allegations he sexually harassed anti-rape, anti-sexual harassment educator Brenda Tracy, who was on campus investigating MSU’s culture. Tucker’s statement, released by his attorney Jennifer Belveal, follows: “Brenda Tracy’s allegations of harassment are completely false. The proceedings initiated by…
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(Editor’s note: The following was shared early this morning.) We’re being sued for $250 million by a coach banned by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for sexually abusing his underage athletes. Why us? We weren’t quiet; we told the volleyball community about his bans. Now we need a legal defense. We have launched a GoFundMe to pay…
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Beneficiaries of the Alert include both the private sector and higher education, where professors use the Alert with thousands of sports law students. As Hackney Publications closes in on the completion of its 18th year of publishing Sports Litigation Alert, publisher Holt Hackney is especially proud of the last two issues. “We’re touching on every…
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Several dozen of the most influential organizations in the sport and nonprofit sectors have officially endorsed the Children’s Bill of Rights in Sports, drafted by the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society Program to create a shared cultural understanding about the right of all youth to play and to develop through sports. Written with the aid…
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Hackney Publications announced today the launch of “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About,” a portal that serves as a resource for those in need of experienced and capable legal counsel in the sports law arena. The firms are listed alphabetically, an ode to the difficulty in actually ranking such…
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NCAA and Big Ten officials are being asked once more to commence an investigation of Ohio State’s decades-long cover-up of Dr. Richard Strauss’s sexual abuse of nearly 1,500 students and student-athletes. Last week, nearly 200 Strauss survivors and student-athletes requested that the NCAA and Big Ten Conference launch an investigation to hold Ohio State accountable…
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Athletes for Equity in Sport (“AES”) announced yesterday that it supports the action of the U.S. Congress in passing S. 2330, the Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athletes Act of 2020. “This action by Congress provides significant financial and institutional support to all Olympic and Paralympic Sport athletes by providing further protections from sexual predation…
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The National Sports Law Institute’s Annual Fall conference will take place online on Microsoft Teams on Friday, October 16, 2020. This year’s conference will focus on Perspectives from a Sports Law Faculty, and feature our own Sports Law Program faculty members, many who are members of this association, along with a few other alums, discussing…
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