06.26.14
The Manatt-sponsored and chaired Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) has started a campaign against heading in soccer by children under 14 because of the scientifically-based risks that recent research has disclosed.
06.19.14
Manatt, along with cosponsors the San Francisco 49ers, San Jose Sharks and Oakland A’s, will be sponsoring the Fifth Annual Sports Law and Ethics Symposium at Santa Clara University on September 11, 2014.
03.28.14
Manatt’s Sports Practice Chair, Ron Katz, conducted a so-called “fireside chat” with NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana on March 20 at the West Coast M&A Conference of the Association for Corporate Growth, where Montana was the keynote speaker.
02.26.14
Professional athletes seeking to take advantage of California’s historically beneficial workers’ compensation scheme suffered back-to-back defeats to close out 2013.
01.08.14
The four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA (the leagues) scored a significant victory in September in their ongoing lawsuit to prevent legalized gambling in the state of New Jersey.
10.09.13
Selected proceedings from the Sports Law Symposium sponsored by Manatt and hosted by the Santa Clara University Institute of Sports Law and Ethics on September 12, 2013, have now been published.
09.16.13
In the wake of the highly publicized settlement agreement between the NFL and approximately 4,500 former players over concussion-related brain injuries, in which the NFL agreed to pay out $765 million, Manatt sponsored a successful symposium exploring problems and proposed solutions related to ...
07.19.13
Santa Clara University's Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE), of which Manatt is a Charter Sponsor, presented its first Ethics of Sports (ETHOS) Award May 1 to Jim Thompson, the founder of the Positive Coaching Alliance.
06.24.13
Manatt will again be a Gold Sponsor of the Santa Clara Institute of Sports Law and Ethics Symposium. Other Gold Sponsors are the SF '49ers, the San Jose Sharks and the Oakland Athletics.
05.22.13
In a recent 62-page decision by the Third Circuit, obviously intended to give guidance in an unclear area of the law, the rights of publicity of a college athlete in a video game trumped the First Amendment arguments of the video game manufacturer.