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Sports and Law
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NFL Salary Cap Penalties: Competitive Balance or Collusion?
21 Apr 2012 by Michael Wess / 1 Comment
Once again the NFL faces legal challenges from within its own ranks. See prior blog on player concussion liability. The NFL may find itself on tenuous legal ground as it faces a grievance filed by the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins over the League’s decision to penalize both teams for salary cap violations in an uncapped season.
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Tardy to the Party: NFL Allows Casinos to Advertise
21 Apr 2012 by Katherine DeStefano / No Comments
The NFL holds a strict stance against betting on football games. This did not stop them, however, from recently deciding to allow teams to accept advertisements from casinos. Historically, the NFL refused to allow teams to accept any form of advertising from casinos and the like, but now they will allow all 32 teams to accept advertising on a limited basis from casinos in their markets.
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Where We Stand With Online Gambling: A Requiem for My Blog
16 Apr 2012 by Andrew Fleischman / No Comments
It’s been a magical run here the past few months, but my blogging time with the good folks of LexisNexis has come to an end. When I first started in January, the DOJ had finally announced it was reversing its long-held position that the Wire Act prohibits all forms of online gambling and instead, was adopting the position that the Wire Act only prohibits online sports gambling. Since then, we’ve chatted about prohibition, the failure of iGaming in D.C., sports gambling in New Jersey, and Utah becoming the first state in the nation to criminalize online poker playing.
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Liability for NFL Bounties: Possible but Impractical
30 Mar 2012 by Michael Wess / 1 Comment
In the wake of revelations into the NFL’s investigation of the New Orleans Saints bounty system, and the substantial fines and suspensions handed down by the league, the next logical question for many legal minded followers is the possibility of civil liability for individual players, the Saints, or the NFL for injuries that occurred as a result of a bounty.
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Regulation of Agents’ Access to College Athletes: Feasible or Totally Unrealistic?
30 Mar 2012 by Katherine DeStefano / No Comments
Passed in 2007 by the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), the “Junior Rule” prohibited certified sports agents from contacting college football players until the student-athletes were classified as juniors. The rule was passed around the time it surfaced that Reggie Bush and his family received gifts and cash from agents before his junior year at the University of Southern California.
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Utah Stays One Step Ahead of the Devil, One Step Behind Progress
30 Mar 2012 by Andrew Fleischman / No Comments
Geographically speaking Utah is the most beautifully diverse state in the country: gorgeous red natural rock formations in the southeast, a desert oasis in the southwest, and pristine snow-capped mountains in the north. When it comes to all other forms of diversity . . . well, let’s just say Utah is lacking in that department.
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NFL Concussion Effects Fuel Products Liability Claims
10 Mar 2012 by Michael Wess / No Comments
The NFL is not alone in its exposure to potential liability from the long-term effects that some studies are now saying concussions have on brain function. Equipment manufacturers may also be on the hook if players are able to establish successful products liability claims. As I have touched on previously, the NFL is facing claims from former players who argue that the NFL concealed information concerning the true danger of concussions.
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Drunk in AC? You May Have a New Way Gamble Away Your Money!
05 Mar 2012 by Andrew Fleischman / 1 Comment
It’s 4 in the morning and you’re drunk in Atlantic City. The craps table at the Borgata has been kind to you all night as you play the odds on the pass line, but it’s time to take those winnings and do something reckless with it. Sit down at the blackjack table? Waste of time and money. Let it all ride on black?
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Will the NFL’s bounty fallout help answer questions about online speech rights?
05 Mar 2012 by Katherine DeStefano / No Comments
The tweet of the week comes just days after reports surfaced about former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator, Gregg Williams, initiating a “bounty” program that rewarded players for knocking out opponents. The player mentioned in the tweet is Jonathan Vilma, a linebacker for the Saints, who allegedly offered $10,000 in cash to any player who knocked Brett Favre out of a January 2011 playoff game.
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Jeremy Lin’s Facebook and Trademark Application: “Linsanely” Brilliant
26 Feb 2012 by Katherine DeStefano / No Comments
By now, we are all probably familiar with the term “Linsanity.” Particularly for those of us living in New York, the unpredictable rise of Knicks point guard, Jeremy Lin, has created quite a stir around the city. It really is a story for the record books. The hard-nosed Harvard University graduate scored 136 points in his first 5 starts, more than anyone since the NBA/ABA merger in 1976.
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