On June 21, 2021, the Supreme Court ruled against the NCAA, affirming the Ninth Circuit ruling which invalidated NCAA restrictions on certain education related benefits for college athletes. For years, National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) rules have limited the compensation college athletes can receive, both from NCAA member schools and from other sources. In this...
Law360 (May 24, 2021, 10:03 PM EDT) – Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros told a New York state judge Monday that they had the legal right to cut minor league clubs after an affiliate agreement with Minor League Baseball expired last year, urging the court to toss lawsuits by a...
By Zennie Abraham on Scribd Atlanta – 45 days ago before Monday, September 9th, The City of Oakland was given a deadline of Monday, September 9th, before 12 midnight to submit a new complaint as part of its lawsuit against the Oakland Raiders and the National Football League. That order was issued by U.S. District Court,...
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– For some time now, we have seen cities being pitted against each other, to give away their treasure for the promise of corporate presence in their communities. Most recently, Amazon put cities into this feeding frenzy for the pleasure of having a corporate center or warehouse in their...
AKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Oakland is fighting back. Tuesday the city announced it was suing the Raiders and the NFL to recover damages from the team’s move to Las Vegas. The suit claims that Oakland never had a chance despite bending over backward to try to convince Raiders’ owner Mark Davis to stay. When the...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 OAKLAND, CA — Oakland City Attorney Barbara J. Parker announced that the City will file a federal antitrust and breach of contract lawsuit today against the National Football League (“NFL”), the Raiders and each of the other 31 NFL clubs (“NFL Defendants”). The City Attorney recommended and the Oakland City Council...
The National Football League Players Association filed a grievance over the national anthem policy the league introduced in May, the union announced July 10. “The union’s claim is that this new policy, imposed by the NFL’s governing body without consultation with the NFLPA, is inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement and infringes on player rights,”...
By Chris De Benedetti If I told you that, with just one step, the Oakland City Council could recoup hundreds of millions of public dollars, silence longtime critics over the Raiders deal, and erase the Coliseum debt — all while outfoxing a powerful corporation with a history of mistreating Oakland — would you want them to...
The city of Oakland and Alameda County are considering suing the Oakland Raiders over the massive debt the team will leave on the Coliseum when it moves to Las Vegas in a few years, the San Francisco Chronicle$ reports. City and county officials at first dismissed the idea of suing the Raiders, citing the costs of litigation, but...
By Matier & Ross March 13, 2018 The Oakland City Council and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors are in talks with a pair of out-of-town law firms looking to sue the NFL and the Raiders for upward of $500 million over the team’s impending move to Las Vegas. “It wouldn’t cost us anything,” City Councilman Noel Gallo said...
