A former NFL player claims in court that he was wrongly arrested and accused of solicitation by Broward County sheriff’s deputies who conspired to make false charges against him.
Read moreSiding with an Italian ballerina, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that operatic and orchestra workers are entitled to challenge abuses in fixed-term employment contracts.
Read moreWrapping up a nearly three-week trial on corruption in college basketball, a federal jury handed convictions all around Wednesday to a former Adidas executive and two co-defendants.
Read moreBasketball pro Udonis Haslem of the Miami Heat claims in a Florida lawsuit that his family watch dog Juice was castrated without permission, costing him “hundreds of thousands of dollars or more” in income lost from semen sales and breeding.
Read moreThe makers of Titleist golf balls, a brand name in place for 85 years, brought a federal complaint Friday against the makers of a parody brand that holds itself out as the “sluttiest ball in golf.”
Read moreJust as World Wrestling Entertainment overwhelmed rivals like ECW and the AWA, Vince McMahon’s pro wrestling empire triumphed this week in a series of concussion-related lawsuits filed by former wrestlers.
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Saying he got “caught in the cross-fire” of the war on ticket resellers, a stock broker sued the New York Yankees on Thursday for voiding the nine season tickets he purchased for a whopping $134,000.
Read moreThe Second Circuit revived fraud claims Tuesday by Associated Press contributors who have taken photographs at NFL events for what has been nearly a decade.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed Rick Pitino’s lawsuit blaming the NCAA recruitment scandal on Adidas, ruling Tuesday that the former University of Louisville men’s basketball coach and apparel company must resolve their dispute in arbitration.
Read moreFive New Yorkers suspected of counterfeiting $73.2 million in fake Air Jordan sneakers will appear before a federal magistrate Wednesday.
Read moreFormer NFL Pro-Bowler Branden Albert misses his prized Bentley Bentayga. He claims in Florida court that a model disappeared with the $290,000 vehicle in what initially “appeared to be an April Fool’s Day prank.”
Read moreThe company that owns the likeness of Muhammad Ali and the Fox Broadcasting Company settled a $30 million lawsuit Monday that alleged the TV network used film footage of the boxing great to promote the 2017 Super Bowl without permission.
Read moreFour former student-athletes on the Ohio State University wrestling team claim the school did not protect athletes from a team doctor accused of sexually abusing potentially hundreds of students over two decades.
Read moreA former member of the Ohio State University Diving Club claims in a class action that a former coach used his position to sexually abuse her and says neither the college nor USA Diving did enough to protect female athletes from such abuse.
Read moreRemoving antitrust barriers from a $71 billion merger, the Department of Justice told Disney on Wednesday that it can buy most of 21st Century Fox’s assets as long as it divests 22 regional sports networks.
Read moreNew York City public schools deny black and Latino students equal access to high school sports teams, a class action claims in New York County Supreme Court.
Read moreThoroughbred horse racing will return to Virginia after a 4-year absence, with the legalization of “historical horse racing machines,” a form of digital gambling that in which bettors wager on old races.
Read moreConflicting state laws and wide variations in hours worked make it impractical and wrong to let Minor League players team up to sue their employers for minimum wage, a Major League Baseball lawyer told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday.
Read moreMajor League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday to reverse a finding that sports teams must pay sales taxes on collectible bobblehead toys and other giveaways to fans on game days.
Read moreFive former Houston Texans cheerleaders claim in a lawsuit filed Friday that they were subjected to a hostile workplace and not protected from mental and physical abuses perpetrated by fans and their own coach.
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