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April 26, 2024
Under Armour Investor Urges 4th Circ. To Revive Suit
An Under Armour Inc. shareholder has urged the Fourth Circuit to resurrect his lawsuit that alleges company executives artificially inflated Under Armour's share price and cashed out before the stock plummeted, arguing the lower court erred in ruling that it did not have the power to hear the case.
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April 26, 2024
Blackstone Must Face Claims Of Price-Fixing At Vegas Hotels
A Las Vegas hotel price-fixing suit against Blackstone and others has survived the private equity firm's motion to dismiss, with a Nevada federal judge ruling the plaintiffs had shown enough to allege Blackstone was in control of one of the target hotels, the Cosmopolitan Hotel, at the time of the alleged scheme.
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April 26, 2024
Off The Bench: Nassar Victims, Bush V. NCAA, New ACC Suit
In this week's Off The Bench, the U.S. Department of Justice cuts a nine-figure deal for botching its sexual abuse investigation of disgraced USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar, college football legend Reggie Bush plows ahead with an NCAA defamation suit despite reclaiming his Heisman trophy, and Florida sues the ACC to detail its lucrative media rights contracts.
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April 26, 2024
Gov't Wants Ex-Boston Celtic Imprisoned For Health Plan Scheme
Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge to sentence former Boston Celtics player Glen "Big Baby" Davis to roughly three years in prison after he was convicted of scheming with a group of ex-pros to submit fraudulent invoices to the NBA's healthcare plan.
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April 26, 2024
SafeSport Turned 'Predator Rather Than Protector,' Suit Says
A New Jersey gymnastics coach has claimed the U.S. Center for SafeSport, which Congress tasked with guarding young athletes from abuse and holding abusers accountable, "turned predator rather than protector" after allegedly unfairly suspending him without due process.
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April 26, 2024
As Leagues Enforce Betting Rules, A Potential Catch-22 Brews
Nearly 10 years ago, momentum for legal sports gambling began to accelerate with help from an unlikely advocate: NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who penned a New York Times op-ed signaling that major sports leagues' opposition to the practice was misplaced and a new strategy was needed. Today, he and other pro sports leaders are contending with fallout from the rapid rise of sports betting.
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April 26, 2024
Tampa Bay Rays Owner Settles Suit With Minority Owners
Tampa Bay Rays majority owner Stuart Sternberg has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the Major League Baseball team's minority owners accusing him of trying to squeeze them out of profits.
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April 25, 2024
AI-Created Rant Tied To Principal Leads To Ex-Staffer's Arrest
Baltimore County police on Thursday arrested a former high school athletic director who is accused of using artificial intelligence to generate a racist and antisemitic audio recording falsely attributed to the school's principal, allegedly in retaliation for an investigation into the potential mishandling of school funds.
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April 25, 2024
Rubrik Leads Trio Of IPOs That Buoy Recovering Market
Three companies debuted trading Thursday following initial public offerings that raised nearly $1.4 billion combined under guidance from six total law firms, including two offerings that priced above range by data security firm Rubrik and aerospace company Loar, providing fresh energy for a strengthening IPO market.
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April 25, 2024
Knicks Owner Wants Out Of Therapist's Sex Assault Suit
New York Knicks owner James Dolan asked a California federal judge to nix a massage therapist's claims alleging he helped disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein sexually assault her at a hotel in 2014, arguing the therapist doesn't plausibly allege Dolan knew she would be assaulted or that he encouraged it.
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April 25, 2024
NBA Player Can't Duck Negligence Claims In Shooting Suit
NBA rookie star player Brandon Miller must face claims he is liable for delivering a gun to others who used it in a shootout that killed a 23-year-old woman, an Alabama federal judge has ruled, saying the suit adequately alleges he had a duty not to cause the woman harm.
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April 25, 2024
Vince McMahon Accuser Says Arbitration Bid Is Full Of 'Lies'
The former World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. legal staffer who accused founder Vince McMahon of sexually abusing and trafficking her is fighting his bid to arbitrate the explosive lawsuit, arguing that he used a recent motion to mount a "vicious" and untrue attack on her character.
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April 25, 2024
DOJ Still Owes Victims After $139M Nassar Settlement
The federal government's $139 million settlement for victims of convicted sexual abuser Larry Nassar goes a long way toward holding the FBI responsible for its egregious mishandling of the victims' allegations, but gives no assurance that such complaints in the future will be handled properly, legal experts say.
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April 25, 2024
Tenn. Hacker Pleads Guilty In DraftKings Accounts Breach
A Memphis, Tennessee, man, on Thursday became the second defendant to plead guilty in Manhattan federal court to scheming to hack accounts on the DraftKings sports betting site.
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April 25, 2024
WWE Shareholders Combine Chancery TKO Merger Suits
Delaware's Court of Chancery will decide this summer whether teams led by Block & Leviton, Bernstein Litowitz or Robbins Geller will represent World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. stockholders in a consolidated class suit against founder Vincent McMahon and others over the company's $21 billion merger with the Endeavor Group.
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April 25, 2024
Fla. Sues ACC, Saying Media Contracts Are Public Records
Florida's attorney general sued the Atlantic Coast Conference on Thursday, claiming the collegiate athletic conference wrongfully withheld media rights contracts from public review that are at the center of Florida State University's fight to leave the ACC.
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April 24, 2024
Jury Must Decide Law Firms' Fee Dispute Over Nassar Suits
A jury will need to decipher the terms of an agreement in a fee dispute between Andrus Wagstaff PC and Lipton Law Center PC for joint representation of the survivors of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, a Michigan federal judge ruled Wednesday, partially rejecting Andrus Wagstaff's summary judgment bid.
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April 24, 2024
MLB Fired Ump For Reporting Sex Harassment, Suit Says
Major League Baseball fired a minor league umpire who accused a female colleague of bullying him and using homophobic slurs to avoid disrupting its goal of recruiting more women to work for the league, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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April 24, 2024
NFL Can't Tell Jurors Attys Fueled Sunday Ticket Suit
With an antitrust trial in long-running multidistrict litigation between the NFL and DirecTV subscribers over the league's Sunday Ticket football package set to kick off this summer, the judge overseeing the case is laying down the law about what can and can't be told to the jury.
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April 24, 2024
Wash. AG Wants RFK Jr., Ex-NBA Star's Anti-Vax Suit Tossed
Washington's attorney general urged a federal judge Tuesday to toss a lawsuit brought by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on behalf of NBA legend John Stockton trying to shield doctors who make anti-vaccine statements, arguing a state medical board has the right to penalize medical providers for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.
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April 24, 2024
World Cup Workers' Abuse Suit Still Falls Short, US Cos. Say
A Texas engineering company and a Colorado subsidiary have asked a federal court to dismiss claims from Filipino workers alleging they were subjected to inhumane labor conditions when helping construct stadiums for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, arguing the workers' latest attempt doesn't even show the defendants recruited or hired them.
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April 24, 2024
Judge Unconvinced That Barstool Sports Swiped Shop Photo
A new copyright lawsuit against Barstool Sports may not get off the ground after a New York federal judge questioned whether the image the photographer included in her complaint is the same one the company used on its website.
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April 24, 2024
Under Armour Must Show Shoe Sponsor Deals In Patent Row
Under Armour is being forced to turn over information relating to deals it has with athletes like basketball star Stephen Curry as part of a patent infringement lawsuit, but the Texas federal judge in the case limited how much the sportswear company has to provide.
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April 24, 2024
Reggie Bush Scores Heisman Back After Nearly 15 Years
Nearly 15 years after being stripped of his records and awards, former University of Southern California running back and football legend Reggie Bush is getting his 2005 Heisman Trophy back, with the Heisman Trophy Trust citing "enormous changes" in the college football environment.
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April 24, 2024
Wash. Nationals' Millennial Discount Doesn't Fly, Suit Says
Older fans of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team were out of luck when it came to getting 30% discounted tickets because the team only offered it to millennials ages 21 to 39 as part of a marketing promotion that a proposed class action alleges is illegal.
Expert Analysis
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Strategies For Patent Drafting As Eligibility Questions Linger
While the U.S. Supreme Court has demonstrated a lack of interest in clarifying the test for patent eligibility, lessons learned from lower court opinions can allow practitioners to better prepare patent applications for future challenges under Section 101, says Karam J. Saab at Kilpatrick.
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Level Up Lawyers' Business Development With Gamification
With employee engagement at a 10-year low in the U.S., there are several gamification techniques marketing and business development teams at law firms can use to make generating new clients and matters more appealing to lawyers, says Heather McCullough at Society 54.
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Mallory Ruling Leaves Personal Jurisdiction Deeply Unsettled
In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway, a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court recently rolled back key aspects of its 2017 opinion in Daimler AG v. Bauman that limited personal jurisdiction, leaving as many questions for businesses as it answers, say John Cerreta and James Rotondo at Day Pitney.
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NY's Updated NIL Law Blazes A New Trail For Student-Athletes
A recently signed bill amending the name, image and likeness law in New York — which prohibits the NCAA from penalizing a college for directly assisting its student-athletes' NIL opportunities — is paving the way for the creation of NIL collectives that will work directly with colleges to facilitate more deals, say Dan Lust and Lauren Bernstein at Moritt Hock.
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5 Ways Firms Can Rethink Office Design In A Hybrid World
As workplaces across the country adapt to flexible work, law firms must prioritize individuality, amenities and technology in office design, says Kristin Cerutti at Nelson Worldwide.
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Opinion
Bar Score Is Best Hiring Metric Post-Affirmative Action
After the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down affirmative action admissions policies, law firms looking to foster diversity in hiring should view an applicant's Multistate Bar Examination score as the best metric of legal ability — over law school name or GPA, says attorney Alice Griffin.
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Copyright Precautions For AI Content After Warhol
Since the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Warhol v. Goldsmith decision is unlikely to shed much light on liability for the use of copyrighted material in artificial intelligence content, developers should consider whether their AI-generated work has a different purpose or character than the original to avoid infringement, say Justin Pierce and Maria Sinatra at Venable.
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How End Of Forced Arb. Is Affecting Sex Harassment Cases
A little over a year after the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault Act became effective, we have started seeing substantive interpretation of the EFAA, almost exclusively from the U.S. district courts in New York, and there are two key takeaways for employers, says Lisa Haldar at Lawrence & Bundy.
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Ghosting In BigLaw: How To Come Back From Lack Of Feedback
Junior associates can feel powerless when senior colleagues cut off contact instead of providing useful feedback, but young attorneys can get back on track by focusing on practical professional development and reexamining their career priorities, says Rachel Patterson at Orrick.
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Steps To Success For Senior Associates
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Adriana Paris at Rissman Barrett discusses the increased responsibilities and opportunities that becoming a senior associate brings and what attorneys in this role should prioritize to flourish in this stressful but rewarding next level in their careers.
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Automatic Arbitration Win For Cos. May Come With Pitfalls
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent resolution of a circuit split governing arbitration stays in Coinbase v. Bielski is a win for companies seeking to enforce arbitration agreements, but there may be consequences to keep in mind when considering whether to appeal a denial of a motion to compel arbitration, say Marianne Spencer and Sonya Winner at Covington.
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Legal Profession Must Do More For Lawyers With Disabilities
At the start of Disability Pride month, Rosalyn Richter at Arnold & Porter looks at why lawyers with disabilities are significantly underrepresented in private practice, asserting that law firms and other employers must do more to conquer the implicit bias that deters attorneys from seeking accommodations.
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Opinion
Appellate Funding Disclosure: No Mandate Is Right Choice
The Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules' recent decision, forgoing a mandatory disclosure rule for litigation funding in federal appeals, is prudent, as third-party funding is only involved in a minuscule number of federal cases, and courts have ample authority to obtain funding information if necessary, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.
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NBA Players Must Avoid Legal Fouls In CBD Deals
The NBA’s recently ratified collective bargaining agreement allows athletes to promote CBD brands and products, but athletes and the companies they promote must be cautious of a complex patchwork of applicable state laws and federal regulators’ approach to advertising claims, says Airina Rodrigues at Brownstein Hyatt.
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PGA, LIV Tie-Up Might Foreshadow Future Of Women's Soccer
The pending merger between PGA Tour and LIV Golf is entirely consistent with the history of American professional sports leagues that faced upstart competitors, and is a warning about the forthcoming competition between the National Women's Soccer League and the USL Super League, says Christopher Deubert at Constangy Brooks.