Media & Entertainment Law

Kentucky Speedway's Antitrust Suit Against NASCAR Dismissed

Posted on January 08, 2008
Yesterday, a federal court judge dismissed Kentucky Speedway's antitrust lawsuit claiming NASCAR and International Speedway Corp. (ISC) conspired to monopolize and restrain trade in auto racing at the premier racing circuit level. Kentucky Speedway alleges that the two entities, which are both controlled by the France family, conspired to preclude Kentucky Speedway and other tracks from hosting the Sprint Cup (formerly Nextel Cup) series despite their superior amenities...

Roger Clemens' Press Conference

Posted on January 07, 2008
Earlier this evening, I wrote an SI.com piece on Roger Clemens' press conference. Hope you can check it out. I also hope you check out our Special Report on Roger Clemens, which includes a number of great pieces, including an exclusive interview by Jon Heyman with Brian McNamee, who tells Jon that he is standing by his story.

Thoughts on the Clemens Defamation Suit

Posted on January 07, 2008
As everyone probably knows, Clemens today filed a defamation action in state court in Harris County, Texas (which includes Houston). Story (including a link to the Complaint) here. ESPN's Outside the Lines will have a program on Clemens at 2:30 E.S.T...

Forget Bin Laden. Can he Pitch?

Posted on January 07, 2008
What was most fascinating about last night?s 60 Minutes Program was the hype. For days we have been seeing the promos for the blockbuster face-off between Roger Clemens and Mike Wallace. The interview was so newsworthy the New York Times leaked its highlights a few days before the show aired...

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Initial Thoughts on the Roger Clemens Interview

Posted on January 06, 2008
Mike has some excellent comments on Roger Clemens' "60 Minutes" interview, particularly on the prospects of a defamation suit by McNamee (I basically agree with what Mike says here ) and of Clemens testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform later this month...

"Discrimination Issues in Sports: Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation" at Loyola Marymount (L.A.)

Posted on January 04, 2008
For all those interested, Loyola Marymount's Law School is sponsoring a seminar on discrimination in sports. Below is the relevant information. Apologies if this has already been posted on.Discrimination Issues in Sports: Race, Gender & Sexual OrientationFriday, Jan...

Giants-Pats Simulcast Results in Bar's Lawsuit

Posted on January 04, 2008
It was reported that an Ohio sports bar filed suit against DirecTV for damages because it charged the facility for showing last week's Giants-Patriots game, despite the fact that it was simulcast on two terrestrial networks. That circumstance was discussed in a previous blog...

Defamation and Clearing Your Name

Posted on January 03, 2008
One constant question in the wake of the Mitchell Report has been whether named players could or would sue Mitchell, MLB, or one of the sources--Kirk Radomski or Brian McNamee--in an effort to "clear their names." Such a lawsuit is a risky proposition...

Gabibbo Talks Its Way to Victory over Big Red

Posted on December 31, 2007
Back in February 2004, Greg wrote about Western Kentucky University suing Mediaset, the television company run by Silvio Berlusconi, the richest man in Italy and the country's then Prime Minister, for trademark and copyright infringement, claiming that Gabibbo, the mascot for the satirical show "Striscia la Notizia" is a carbon copy of Big Red, the Western Kentucky mascot since 1979...

New Sports Law Scholarship

Posted on December 31, 2007
New scholarship over the past several weeks:Dana Howells, Note, Log me in to the old ballgame, 22 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 477 (2007)Kelly P. O'Neill, Note, Sioux unhappy: challenging the NCAA?s ban on Native American imagery, 42 TULSA LAW REVIEW 171 (2006)Joel Michael Ugolini, Even a violent game has its limits: a look at the NFL?s responsibility for the behavior of its players, 39 UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO LAW REVIEW 41 (2007)

Broadcasting the Patriots - Giants Game

Posted on December 28, 2007
The saga of the right to telecast Saturday evening's game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants ended in a strange, but satisfying conclusion. The game, to be broadcast on two terrestrial television networks, one niche cable network and even a local independent station or two, guarantees maximum exposure for a potentially history-making game...

UNEQUAL TREATMENT UNDER THE LAW

Posted on December 26, 2007
In 1986, Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act which, among other things, mandated sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine to be 100 times more severe than for crimes involving powdered cocaine. Many have seen this disparity in sentencing guidelines as reflecting the similar disparity in the way the law treats the poor and the not so poor...

Introducing Blog Justice

Posted on December 24, 2007
Alan Milstein and his law firm, Sherman Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky, have started a new blog that will be of interest to many of you: Blog Justice. It will examine legal issues that intersect with social justice. While Alan is regarded by many as the nation's leading sports litigator (he has litigated on behalf of Allen Iverson, Eddy Curry, and Maurice Clarett, among other prominent athletes), he has received even more acclaim for his litigation in the areas of insurance law, products liability, bioethics and clinical trials litigation...

JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE SERVED

Posted on December 23, 2007
A state judge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana granted a request to adjourn a personal injury trial scheduled to start the same day LSU plays Ohio State in the BCS national championship game. The defendant?s attorney, Stephen Babcock, requested the delay claiming he had tickets to the January 7th game at the New Orleans Superdome...

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