Clarkson files suit against University of Michigan for enabling pervasive image-based sexual violence against female athletes.
Clarkson files suit against University of Michigan for enabling pervasive image-based sexual violence against female athletes.
The deadline to formally object to a landmark settlement of antitrust cases facing the NCAA passed late last week with more than 35 filings to the court. Numerous challenges have been made to how $2.8 billion in damages is expected to be divvied up among claimants, proposed roster restrictions some say unfairly limits opportunities for college athletes and whether the deal violates Title IX.
Arthur Bryant, a Title IX attorney, objects to a $2.5B NCAA settlement, claiming it unfairly benefits male athletes, breaches federal laws, and lacks separate representation for conflicting interests
Four people have sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, alleging that four priests sexually abused them when they were children between the 1960s and 1980s.
The proposed class action settlement in In re Collegiate Athlete NIL Litigation, publicly known as House v. NCAA, cannot stand. It discriminates against women athletes in violation of Title IX, replaces one illegal price-fixing agreement with another, and creates roster limits that are already depriving thousands of athletes of the chance to play college sports. It also flouts both the class action rules and the U.S. Constitution, which require that class members with conflicting interests—like the female and male athletes here—be represented by separate lawyers devoted to them.
Scale AI is facing its third lawsuit over alleged labor practices in just over a month, this time from workers claiming they suffered psychological trauma from reviewing disturbing content without adequate safeguards.
Coaches and non-management staff members at the University of Oregon are permitted to speak with attorneys representing current and former members of the school’s varsity beach volleyball and club rowing teams, who filed a federal Title IX lawsuit, following a court ruling this week. The university separately filed a motion to pause discovery until the court rules on three of its pending motions to dismiss aspects of the case.
The plans that many major college athletic departments are making for how they will distribute new direct payments to their athletes would violate Title IX law, according to a memo published by the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued guidance regarding college athlete name, image and likeness, putting the onus on schools to ensure their male and female athletes receive proportionate NIL opportunities and resources regardless of whether the funding comes from external sources.
A year on, Komarova and McDarmont are suing Cooper saying they may have lost their chance of having children. The suit says the firm failed to implement proper testing and quality control during manufacture.
An Amazon Prime subscriber is accusing the company of secretly excluding “historically underserved communities” across the country from its promise to deliver packages in two days, in a proposed class action filed in Washington state court.