March 07, 2025
In this week's Off The Bench, NASCAR insists that the two teams suing it are the real antitrust bullies, the ACC keeps two valued and valuable members in the fold, and a baseball player ends his court fight to play another year in college.
March 03, 2025
An NBA arbitration hearing is scheduled to take place in July in the New York Knicks' lawsuit against the Toronto Raptors over claims a Knicks video director hired by the Toronto team had acted as a "mole" and provided his new team with proprietary data.
December 16, 2024
The New York Knicks reiterated their claim that National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver is biased against the franchise and incapable of arbitrating their data-theft dispute with the Toronto Raptors, accusing Silver of a "clear conflict of interest.''
June 28, 2024
The dispute between the New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors over an employee jumping from one franchise to another belongs in arbitration before the NBA commissioner, a Manhattan federal judge ruled on Friday, calling the Knicks' efforts to keep it in court instead "an airball.''
January 01, 2024
An ever-increasing volume of lawsuits involving the NCAA highlights the list of sports and betting cases to watch in 2024, including battles over athletes' right to compensation for their name, image and likeness and their fight to collectively bargain and be designated as employees. Plus, racial discrimination suits against the NFL, and more. Here, Law360 looks at the top sports and betting cases the legal world will be watching in the new year.
January 01, 2024
The coming year's big cases developing in New York courts involve the protracted legal woes of Donald Trump, bribery allegations against Sen. Bob Menendez and a high-stakes fight over whether artificial intelligence has been purposefully deployed to engage in flagrant copyright theft.
December 12, 2023
The Toronto Raptors want a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss a data-theft suit by the New York Knicks, saying the Knicks have already conceded that the parties are contractually bound to arbitration and raising the prospect of a countersuit for defamation.
November 21, 2023
The New York Knicks have opposed what they called the Toronto Raptors' "shrill motion" to compel arbitration in a federal lawsuit accusing the Raptors of data theft, adding fuel to an increasingly fiery legal war of words between the two competing NBA franchises.
October 25, 2023
Attorneys for the NBA's New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors told a New York federal judge that they have not engaged in any settlement talks or begun discovery in the lawsuit that accuses the Canadian team of stealing proprietary information, while also asking for an extended deadline for response motions.
October 16, 2023
The Toronto Raptors on Monday ripped the New York Knicks' federal lawsuit that accuses them of stealing proprietary information and asked that it be sent to arbitration, calling the action by their NBA rival "baseless" and "a publicity stunt."