Thanks to Daniel Takash of Captured Economy for this one: “Some good news emerging from silly litigation: Solid Oak Sketches, which holds the rights to several tattoos featured on NBA players (...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/04/depicting-nba-players-tattoos-in-videogame-not-an-infringement/
Junior varsity baseball player in New Jersey “suffered a brutal ankle injury on a slide, and his family sued the coach who told him to do it.” The seven-year legal battle that resulted “thr...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/he-told-a-kid-to-slide-then-he-got-sued/
This is precious: Tags: baseball, chasing clients, sports “Houston Astros Scandal — Compensation May Be Available” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal sy...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/02/houston-astros-scandal-compensation-may-be-available/
Under investigation and facing the same sorts of tactics he once used against Wall Street, Giuliani may now have reason to appreciate the sorts of principled civil libertarians who stand firm aga...
“TriMet faulted Laing for failing to heed warning signs … and earbuds playing loud music. Laing’s attorneys argued it couldn’t be determined what volume the music was playing at at the ti...
Harvard lawprof Ronald Sullivan Jr. driven from post as faculty dean of a residential house at the university after student protests of his representation of Harvey Weinstein Stuart Taylor, Jr. ...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/05/higher-education-roundup-14/
Now unpaywalled: my WSJ opinion piece on the city of Baltimore’s outrageous move to use powers of eminent domain to seize the venerable Preakness thoroughbred horse race as well as its associat...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/baltimore-tries-to-grab-the-preakness/
Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh has filed suit seeking to seize the famed Preakness Stakes race — trademarks, business deals, and all — through eminent domain. I’ve got a few things to say a...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/03/baltimore-moves-to-seize-preakness-stakes-race/
New EEOC chief data officer says machine learning algorithms may soon enable agency to predict, and deploy resources against, workplace bias before it happens “The BSO, in a statement, defende...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/01/discrimination-law-roundup-10/
Not just football in its various forms with its known concussion dangers, but other games too face an insurance drought, especially as regards youth participation: “Overall, I think that there ...