Legal Commentary

"Will the Supreme Court Play Ball With Fantasy Baseball Leagues"
"Will the Supreme Court Play Ball With Fantasy Baseball Leagues?" FOXNews.com provides this report.

Court Victories Last Week for Fantasy Baseball and Mayor Bloomberg
Last week, the United States Supreme Court declined to accept an appeal of an 8th Circuit decision that upheld a fantasy baseball company?s right to use, without license, the names of, statistics and information about major league baseball players in connection with its fantasy baseball products...

Fantasy football owners can breath a sigh of relief, for now
As I mentioned last week, there appeared to be some truth to this fantasy sports case being challenged in the federal courts and teed up for the United States Supreme Court to take...

Supreme Court Justices & "Fantasy Baseball"
Apparently, Five of the Nine Supreme Court Justices participate in Fantasy Baseball, and three had to recuse themselves from hearing a case recently granted certiorari on the subject...

Fantasy Prawfs
A few years ago I sat down to write a little Green Bag-esque article where I planned to set out some proposed rules for a fantasy law professor league, based on the popular fantasy sports leagues that lots of people play and can't ever stop talking about--fantasy baseball, fantasy football, fantasy scrabble, etc...

Life is just a Fantasy
On June 2, 2008 (one week ago) the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of Major League Baseball Advanced Media v. C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc (2007) 505 F.3d 818...

NYT Editorial Supports Copyright Rationality in Sports
The New York Times has a nice editorial today on the Supreme Court’s denial of cert to the MLB’s claims to own fantasy baseball. That leaves the case where the Eighth Circuit did, saying that fantasy leagues created around major-league baseball facts are fair game, not the property of MLB...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Mitchell Report Summary
Report on Steroid Drug Use in Major League Baseball by Senator George Mitchell

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Suffocation Hazard Prompts Recall of Play Yards with Bassinets
Dorel Play Yards with Bassinets Recalled due to Suffocation Hazard

Final Fantasy XI
Square Enix Faces Class Action over Deceptive Fees and Payments

Taggies Sleepn' Play
16,000 Garments Recalled

Kolcraft
Recalls 1 Million Play Yards

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Construction Play Sets
Recalled for Toxic Lead Paint