By: Mai Rubin World Wrestling Entertainment (“WWE”) and its creative team are once again under the control of Vince McMahon, majority shareholder and Executive Chairman of the Board.[1] This comes…
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World Ranking Decision Looms Over LIV Golf
By: Tom Kopstein LIV Golf is an upstart Saudi-backed golf tour that rivals the PGA Tour. In 2022, LIV successfully recruited several top PGA Tour players to its tour.[1] In…
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ANTITRUST SUIT SEEKS TO BLOCK MERGER OF TWO PUBLISHING GIANTS
By: Cassie Lewis August 22 marked the end of the explosive three-week trial between the Department of Justice and two publishing giants attempting to merge.[1] The trial’s result will heavily…
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Student or Athlete?: A Look at the NCAA’s Plan to Compensate Athletes for the use of their NIL
By: Daniel Keiser The issue of how college athletes will be compensated beyond the traditional “cost-of-attendance” scholarships has come into clearer focus in the past few weeks. On October 14,…
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Agency-Affiliated Production Companies: A Re-telling of a 1960s Hollywood Classic?
By: Brandon Drea Since April 2019, the Writers Guild and the Association of Talent Agencies (ATA), have been in a standoff surrounding the renewal of a decades-old contract between the…
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Antitrust Claim for Sunday Ticket Against the NFL and DirecTV
By: Grant Welbourn The NFL and DirecTV filed a writ for certiorari on February 10th after the 9th Circuit found that the exclusive rights between the NFL and DirecTV could violate antitrust…
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Growing ‘Trust Issues a Concern for U.S. Soccer, FIFA?
By: Brandon Wurl The United States Soccer Federation (“U.S. Soccer or USSF”) is no stranger to antitrust lawsuits. In 2017, the North American Soccer League (“NASL”) alleged the USSF violated…
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A Hard Sell: Proving Collusion in Major League Baseball
By: Cameron Miller “Bottom line, the players are upset…they are uniting in a way not seen since 1994.” When MLB player agent Brodie Van Wagenen released his manifesto on…
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Collusion or Caution: What is Really Behind MLB’s Slow Free Agent Market?
By: John Zubek While Spring Training is beginning in Arizona and Florida, many talented MLB players are still without contracts. Free agent signings have been few and far between…
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NCAA Internationalization: Antitrust Perspectives
By: Cameron Miller In remarks made to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics on October 30, NCAA President Mark Emmert rightly characterized his organization as one in crisis[1]. With…