JURIST
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma , the court held that the NCAA could, in the interest of preserving the character and quality of college sports, impose restrictions upon players that would otherwise breach antitrust laws. In the 1984 case National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n v.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The NCAA told the justices that, if allowed to stand, the 9th Circuit’s ruling “will fundamentally transform the century-old institution of NCAA sports, blurring the traditional line between college and professional athletes.”. On appeal, the 9th Circuit upheld the statutory damages but reduced the punitive damages to roughly $32 million.
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Conflict of Laws
JUNE 3, 2021
Assume that you successfully obtained a favourable judgment from a foreign court that orders the losing party to pay punitive damages in addition to compensatory damages. Could the judgment be enforced in Japan where punitive damages are considered as contrary to public policy?
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Notably, the jury awarded punitive damages against the university, a relative rarity for juries but well deserved in this case. He argued that academic integrity was being sacrificed for sports. There seemed little balance struck in this case and the jury responded by hitting Auburn with punitive damages.
Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 17, 2024
93A [Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act], punitive damages. Amicus briefs have been filed by: Washington Legal Foundation Atlantic Legal Foundation Landmark Legal Foundation Montana National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. At first, a US District Court dismissed the case, which we reported here. of the petition).
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 7, 2023
” As a sports figure, such allegations can have a major impact on his future contracts both with teams and advertisers. We have previously discussed retraction statutes that can limit damages or actions. Spears has given public statements and is a sports sensation. Reader’s Digest Association , 443 U.S. 157, 168 (1979).
Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 4, 2024
It concerns an article published by leading French newspaper Le Monde in 2006, which claimed that both FC Barcelona and Real Madrid had retained the services of Eufemiano Fuentes , a sports doctor heavily implicated in numerous doping scandals. ’ (para.
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