Professors use Sports Litigation Alert in the classroom primarily to supplement textbooks with current, real-world case studies, fostering better in-class discussion and allowing students to apply legal concepts to up-to-date issues. Key benefits for a professor include: Currency of Information: Textbooks can quickly become outdated in the fast-moving field of sports law. The bi-weekly Alert provides timely summaries…
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A woman, who was “involuntarily forced to view a penis in the women’s locker room at a gym in California, would appear to have a valid cause of action to sue the nude male [M2F transgender] who exhibited his penis to her, even if the gym owners permitted him to expose his genitals to female…
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(Editor’s Note: From the pages of Sports Litigation Alert.) By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer and Professor, Sports Media, Ithaca College, staurows@ithaca.edu On May 8, 2025, administrators with the Minisink Valley Central School District (NY) announced that the head coach of the girls’ softball team had been relieved of his duties pending an investigation…
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John F. Banzhaf III, B.S.E.E., J.D., Sc.D., Professor of Public Interest Law Emeritus at George Washington University, remains as committed as ever to his position on the transgender athlete issue. His latest post (reprinted below) from this morning illustrates that: “Britain’s Supreme Court has just ruled that the legal definition of a woman is someone born biologically…
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WIAA communications director Sean Bessette recently issued a statement saying that abiding by the Trump Administration’s transgender law would violate the state’s inclusion laws. “The WIAA has been told by the Attorney General’s office, the Office for Civil Rights, and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction that proposed amendments ML/HS #7 and ML/HS #8…
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Clarkson’s Arthur Bryant continues to be a prominent voice in the battle for gender equity and Title IX compliance in intercollegiate athletics. With decades of experience representing women athletes and championing equal rights in college sports, Bryant is arguably America’s most accomplished Title IX lawyer. He has been cited by the press nationwide for his views on recent developments,…
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Hackney Publications announced today a client referral program, leveraging 25 years of editing and publishing experience in the sports law field to pair potential legal clients with sports lawyers. Those “friends of Hackney Publications,” defined as subscribers and sponsors, will receive notification when a potential legal client reaches out through Sportslawexpert.com (https://sportslawexpert.com/seeking-a-sports-lawyer/) as well as…
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Two female high school athletes from California, K.S. and T.S., along with their families, and the Save Girls’ Sports association, have filed an amended federal lawsuit against the State of California, Riverside Unified School District, and school officials. The lawsuit challenges AB 1266, the California law that “requires schools to allow biological males to compete…
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From the office of US Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (of Wyoming): “The Biden administration’s effort to fundamentally rewrite the very meaning and purpose of Title IX would threaten the integrity and safety of women’s sports nationwide by allowing men and boys to compete alongside women and girls. These actions have undermined decades of progress and robbed…
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Texas’ Socially Conservative Attorney General, Ken Paxton, has sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) “for engaging in false, deceptive, and misleading practices by marketing sporting events as ‘women’s’ competitions only to then provide consumers with mixed sex competitions where biological males compete against biological females.” In a press release, Paxton’s office claims that “only…
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