Football
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Antitrust, David Boies, Football, Sports
U.S. District Court Judge David S. Doty: The Man Who Holds Football By The Balls
Since Japan is about to sink, drown, or blow up, you might have missed the fact that 32 or so billionaires officially can’t figure out how to share profits with a few hundred millionaires. That’s right, the National Football League — the most successful sports association ever — is in a stage of lockout. The […] -
Football, Sports, Tort Reform
Is Anybody Else Sick of Disgruntled 'Seatgate' Super Bowl Fans?
In case you haven’t been following along, the National Football League has been dealing with a little controversy from 1,250 fans who went to the Super Bowl. It’s been labeled “Seatgate.” These people bought tickets to the Super Bowl, but when they arrived in Dallas, their temporary seats were not completed. It appears that Super […] - Sponsored
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Defamation, Football, Kids, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sports
Lawyers Are Just Hype Men
Tonight America comes together to celebrate its most important holiday. Whether you’re Christian or other, tonight you will plop down on the couch, crack a beer, wait with bated breath for the first commercial break, likely have a heart attack, and definitely beat all holy hell out of your wife. Some say football is America’s […]
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Defamation, Football, Jews, Media and Journalism, Racism, Sports
Dan Snyder, Owner of a Team Named After an Ethnic Slur, Sues Over Perceived Anti-Semitism
This is rich. The owner of the Washington Redskins, Dan Snyder, has sued the Washington City Paper for a column he claims defamed him and used anti-Semitic imagery. That’s right, the man who has famously defended his right to name an entire football team after an ethnic slur is playing the ethnic card because a […] -
Cars, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Football, Labor / Employment, Sports
Packers Fan Fired Over Team Necktie; Will Litigation Ensue?
I saw this story on Mike & Mike this morning, and it’s just been gathering steam all day. A Green Bay Packers fan showed up to his job on Monday at a Chicago area car dealership wearing a Packers tie. As many of you know, the Packers defeated their hated rivals, the Chicago Bears, in […] -
Craigslist, Football, Sports, Weddings
Oregon Fan / Lawyer Seeks Auburn Fan / Hottie for Short-Term Vegas Wedding
Folks, it doesn’t get any better that this. As we approach the BCS National Title game, we expect to hear some strange requests from lawyers who are also fans of either Auburn or Oregon. For instance, last year we saw a cleverly written motion to continue from an Alabama lawyer who wanted to see his […] -
Football, Harvard, Minority Issues, Parties, Racism
Racism Will Find You, Even at the Harvard-Yale Game
The Harvard-Yale Game was this weekend. I didn’t attend. I’m at that uncomfortable age where I’m too old to go to The Game and get black-out drunk at the keg, but too young to show up in a fur coat handing out glasses of Cristal (rhymes with “Mystal”) while my butler grills porterhouse steaks out […] -
Football, Religion, Sports
Is Tim Tebow in the Super Best Friends?
Readers, please buckle your seatbelts and prepare to be astounded, because I am about to talk to you about football. Yes, I know — football and breasts don’t normally mix (hello, Ines Sainz) – but Elie, who would usually write about football and the law, is pulling me from the JV squad and letting me […] - Sponsored
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Football, Sports, Tax Law
How to Take Down the BCS? The Same Way We Got Capone: Tax Law
I have friends who support the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) as an effective non-playoff means for determining the national champion of college football. These friends say that the BCS preserves the sanctity of the college football season (“Every game is a playoff”). They say it gives power conferences (like the Southeastern Confederacy and the Big […] -
Football, Sports
Are You Ready for Some Fantasy Football?
You know fantasy football has taken over the American consciousness when a fake lawyer threatening fake sanctions in an ad campaign makes the news. This morning the ABA Journal ran a profile of Norman Tugwater, a fantasy sports lawyer played by Gary Busey: “I’m getting ready to clean up with the mop of justice,” Tugwater […] -
Football, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court
Sports and the Law: Supreme Court Rules the NFL Is Not a Single Entity
Above the Law has regularly blogged about why the National Football League should not be treated as a single entity under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. See here, here, and here. Today the Supreme Court agreed, ruling 9-0 to overturn the Seventh Circuit’s ruling in American Needle v. Nat’l Football League , in which […] -
Career Alternatives, Football, Sports
Career Alternatives for Attorneys: Football Coach
We’ve written before about how cheerleading for football teams is a possible career for J.D.s, but what about coaching football teams? A Detroit Lions assistant secondary coach, Daron Roberts, has done just that. The Harvard Law graduate and former Biglaw attorney is coaching in the NFL, notwithstanding the fact that he had no prior coaching […] -
Football, Sports
Sports and the Law: Will Ben Roethlisberger's NFL Suspension Stand?
On Wednesday, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger became the first NFL player never charged or convicted of any crime to be suspended under the NFL Personal Conduct Policy. According to Commissioner Roger Goodell, the decision to suspend Roethlisberger was the result of “some bad decisions” that Roethlisberger made in recent weeks, which emerged during the […]
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Football, Law Schools, Sports
Tulane Cancels Class Tomorrow: Students Free to Party With The Saints
I lived in Indiana for 13 months and 9 days (not that I was counting), so last night’s Super Bowl was a little bit disappointing. The night featured the return of the Manning Face, the ads were pretty boring (I did like the Auto-Tune one, Kash liked Google). A game between the two best offenses […] -
Football, Morning Docket
Morning Docket 02.08.10
* Feminist lawyer Gloria Allred was not a fan of the Focus on the Family anti-abortion Super Bowl ad. [Orlando Sentinel] * ABA President Carolyn Lamm is making big efforts to improve loan assistance for law students — and is making no effort to follow sports. “I don’t even know who’s playing,” she said on […]
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Football, Sports
New Orleans, I Love You, But Y'all Need To Calm Down
This whole “the New Orleans Saints are in the Super Bowl” thing is starting to get a little out of hand. First of all, that picture to the right is of a man in a dress. Not just any man, that’s Bobby Hebert, former Saints quarterback and current Saints broadcaster, in a dress. It’s a […] -
Football, Intellectual Property, Sports
Who Dat Sey Dey Own Dat Chant?
Back when I used to practice law, I had the opportunity to do some low-level IP work for the National Football League. As Biglaw work goes, it was pretty fun. And I remember the staff lawyers at the NFL as a very nice and engaging group of men and women. But sometimes, the IP gurus […] -
Football, Sports
Who Dat Needs A Continuance?
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that the New Orleans Saints are going to the Superbowl! You also know that the Saints have never been to the Superbowl; the franchise was once so bad that fans would wear paper bags over their heads to home games. And you surely remember that […] -
Football, Lawsuit of the Day, Sports
Every Alabama Lawyer Should Try the 'BCS Defense'
On Wednesday, we told you about Alabama defense lawyers who filed a motion to continue based on a conflict with the BCS title game. The judge has said he will grant the motion, even though the judge is an alumnus of Alabama’s arch rival, Auburn. Deadspin explains this miscarriage of justice perfectly: If you’re going […] -
Football, Lawsuit of the Day, Sports
Best. Motion to Continue. Ever.
Update: This motion was granted. Some on this board have doubted my commitment to college football. Even though I didn’t go to a school with a major FCS team, I adopted Michigan long, long ago (Elvis Grbac era), and I know how important the sport is. So believe me when I say that this motion […]