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Canada dispatches: counter to Alberta government policy, Calgary sports teams and universities embrace vaccine mandates

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Calgary Sports and Entertainment (CSEC) announced Monday that, effective September 15, all future Calgary Flames, Stampeders, and Hitmen games will require every fan and employee that is eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine to have done so before entering their arenas. [Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Staff Correspondent for Canada.

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Audie Attar and Paradigm Sports Sue Boxing Champ Manny Pacquiao for Breach of Contract

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Pacquiao allegedly switched to another sports promoter, despite having agreed to a four-fight deal with Paradigm Sports.

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Nepal dispatch: glaring gender pay disparities revealed in Nepali cricket

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The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) issued a press statement on February 26 that revealed the annual central contracts for players on both the men’s and women’s national cricket teams for 2024. The contracts delineate the categories (grades) for 30 male and 19 female cricketers, along with their respective salaries.

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Law Firms Keep Buying Amazing Tech… Lawyers Keep Not Using It

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Some systems are slow, clunky, confusing, or so locked down with security protocols that users would rather email themselves a contract than try to retrieve it from a vault of digital despair. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.

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Tennessee Titans Sued By Former Employee For Being Fired After Contracting COVID-19

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A sports field assistant says that he was told to self-quarantine, that he was a qualified employee, and that his rights under the FFCRA were violated.

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Belarus dispatch: how a sports journalist became a political prisoner

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Some of them are students, some are elderly people, and a good number (as it turns out) are athletes and sports journalists. Alexander Ivulin is a Belarusian sports journalist, the most famous football blogger in Belarus (82 thousand subscribers on his YouTube channel , which is called “ChestnOk”). This article is about one of them.

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This Lawsuit Over Golf Tournament Prize Is Your Next 1L Contracts Final

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The post This Lawsuit Over Golf Tournament Prize Is Your Next 1L Contracts Final appeared first on Above the Law. Fun with definitions.

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