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CJ LaBoy and Doug Hendrickson served as sports agents for Octagon. Both signed agreements with NFL players to serve as the players’ representatives in contract negotiations with NFL teams. In exchange, the players agreed to provide the sports agents with a percentage of the negotiated contract. In turn, Plaintiffs agreed to provide this fee to […]
Everyone has seen the picture of Michael Jordan crying at his Hall of Fame induction, as it is being used on memes everywhere. Can the use of this photo in a meme get you sued? Copyright law grants exclusive rights of an original work to its creator, in this case the Associated Press. Of course […]
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Virtual private networks (“VPNs”) and other blocking proxies allow users to hide their IP address in order to make themselves appear to be in another country. People do this in order to access content not otherwise accessible in their country. For instance, Netflix provides different shows and movies depending on the country in which one […]
Kyle Bauer has long worked in the fitness industry and recently founded ReNew You, a fitness club in Houston, Texas. But now his former employer, the nationwide fitness chain Life Time Fitness Inc., is coming after him for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets as well as for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and tortious […]
On December 4, 2015, Ricardo and Vanessa Virgil filed a Class Action Complaint in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York against Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. based on the company “collecting, storing, using, disclosing, and disseminating” individuals’ biometric identifiers and biometric information. Take-Two is the publisher, developer, and distributor of […]
In a decision handed down this past Wednesday, a California Court of Appeals ruled that Asfaw Teferi, a soccer executive for a team in the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (“ESFNA”), was not a public figure for the purposes of his defamation lawsuit. This opinion could have implications for other sports executives in non-major […]
As was to be expected, the Rams departure from St. Louis will not come without its struggles. Only one day after the NFL owners voted to allow the Rams to relocate from St. Louis to Los Angeles, four Rams fans filed a lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court seeking class-action status and an unspecified amount […]
This past Monday, as the remaining NFL teams begin preparations for the next round of playoff football, BWP Media USA Inc. began an off-field battle with Bleacher Report, Inc. by filing a civil lawsuit against the sports and entertainment media company for copyright infringement. According to the lawsuit, the popular sports website run by Bleacher […]
Headings Header one Header two Header three Header four Header five Header six Blockquotes Single line blockquote: Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Multi line blockquote with a cite reference: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to […]