Football, baseball, gymnastics, cannabis, concussions, sneakers, church, and “The Bachelor” all made sports law news last week. Here’s our review of what you need to know.
10. Seeger Weiss To Spend $5M Of Concussion Education Fund
9. Breaking Down Michael Avenatti’s Nike Extortion Trial
8. Court Sacks ‘Seasonal Worker’ Status for Injured NFL Player
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Permanent link to this article: https://advocacyforfairnessinsports.org/2019/11/18/william-whites-settlement-funding-odyssey-reaches-a-sad-conclusion/
Permanent link to this article: https://advocacyforfairnessinsports.org/2019/11/03/mandamus-denied-players-facing-potential-jail-time-in-latest-funder-spat/
Power struggles between settlement funder Thrivest, settlement administration and the court(s) have left players who took advances from Thrivest Specialty Funding in seemingly no-win knot that threatens to nullify their settlement awards should they manage to navigate the road of red-tape and receive one. The most recent ramifications of this point to two former players who’ve been sanctioned and stand the risk of jail time should they continue to fail to comply with an arbitration mandate that requires them to place disputed funds in escrow.
Permanent link to this article: https://advocacyforfairnessinsports.org/nfl-concussion-settlement/nfl-concussion-settlement-funder-power-tugs-leave-players-in-a-knot/
Permanent link to this article: https://advocacyforfairnessinsports.org/2019/09/28/the-tap-dancing-nfl-concussion-settlement-judge/
On Friday, Judge Anita B. Brody of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entered a brief that could be described as a “tap dance” as she seeks to avoid Third Circuit scrutiny following a petition for writ of mandamus directed at her handling of settlement advances.
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On August 28, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint in the Northern District of Florida detailing unbridled fraud against cognitively impaired retired NFL players by a lawyer who once represented them.
Permanent link to this article: https://advocacyforfairnessinsports.org/nfl-concussion-settlement/sec-sues-lawyer-for-defrauding-cognitively-impaired-ex-nflers/
Imagine you’re watching an old spaghetti western set in a town run by an aging saloon girl. A gang of gunslinging robbers have taken up residence in town but the saloon girl enjoys their flattery and tells the sheriff to “let them be,” and aside from an occasional flash of bravado he mostly does as he’s asked. There a subplot running in which a greedy banker is foreclosing on most of the widows in town and those whose husbands have been shot down by the band of outlaws and lay incapacitated. Those who resist the outlaws’ demands find their homes burning to the ground. The movie’s been running for two hours now and you’re wondering the cowboy in a white hat is going to ride in and restore order. Or will he?
Permanent link to this article: https://advocacyforfairnessinsports.org/nfl-concussion-settlement/the-nfl-concussion-settlement-has-devolved-into-a-wild-west-shootout/
Permanent link to this article: https://advocacyforfairnessinsports.org/2019/07/14/what-do-the-packers-financials-reveal-about-the-nfl-concussion-settlement/
On July 12, Daniel Kaplan of the Athletic reported on a staggering drop in profits for the Green Bay Packers as revealed in their 2018 Financial Report.
This was a huge departure from the prior financials, in which the team gained $75 million in profit from operations in 2016 and $65.3 million in 2017. Since the publicly owned Packers are the only team required to release financial reports, their reports have often been viewed as a barometer for the NFL as a whole. The NFL Concussion Settlement was cited as one of their increased expenses.
Permanent link to this article: https://advocacyforfairnessinsports.org/nfl-concussion-settlement/what-the-packers-financials-reveal-about-the-nfl-concussion-settlement/
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