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.
November 28, 2023
Attorneys for award-winning sports journalist Jim Trotter have responded to the National Football League's plan to file a motion to dismiss his racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit, penning a letter calling the motion "frivolous" and the league's defense against his allegations "morally abhorrent."
November 20, 2023
The NFL told a New York federal judge that award-winning sports journalist Jim Trotter did not back up his claims that he was discriminated against and retaliated against when his contract was not renewed, in a letter previewing the league's defense against Trotter's lawsuit accusing it of racism.
September 12, 2023
Award-winning sports journalist Jim Trotter accused two NFL team owners of making blatantly racist remarks that other league officials failed to address, as "part of a long list of cautionary tales involving the treatment of Black professionals across the NFL" included in his discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the league filed on Tuesday.