May 28, 2024
Victor Ficarra, a third-year law student at Temple Law, examines the road to Johnson v. NCAA and how the 3rd Circuit may rule on this appeal. He explores how the NCAA has fared in recent federal court cases and what other decisions may implicate the 3rd Circuit’s decision
April 22, 2024
Granting student-athletes Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights has transformed college sports, but players and institutions alike now seek consistency amid varying NCAA policies and state laws. Last year’s Senate hearing on Name, Image, and Likeness, and the Future of College Sports covered issues of compliance, student-athlete contracts, and employment law while also looking at unique topics like Title IX compliance in relation to NIL donor collectives. On Troutman Pepper’s Highway to NIL podcast, Temple alum Patrick Zancolli and colleagues discuss recent NIL developments in college sports and predictions for what will unfold in the rest of 2024.
On September 21, Temple University hosted the panel “Rooney Rule Revisited: Race and Diversity in Sports and Corporate America” to discuss the history of the NFL’s Rooney Rule (requiring interviews for minorities for head coaching, GM and other top operations vacancies) and DEI in business more generally. American University professor N. Jeremi Duru and Pittsburgh Steelers owner Jim Rooney detailed the implementation of the Rooney Rule, historic barriers to progress and the principles necessary to improve diversity in NFL coaching—or in any industry.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2016 published Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals warning of criminal remedies for those participating in illegal no-poach agreements. Recently, the DOJ and FTC made good on that promise by filing the first public criminal indictment alleging a conspiracy between companies in which they agreed not to poach each other’s employees. The DOJ and FTC warned they could take such actions when “naked” wage-fixing and no-poach agreements were per se illegal violations under the antitrust laws.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has held that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws that prohibit mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims.
On April 24, 2019, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Lamps Plus, Inc., et. al. v. Varela, No 17-988. In a 5-4 opinion, the Court held that an ambiguous agreement cannot provide the requisite contractual basis to support a finding that the parties agreed to submit a dispute to class arbitration.
Temple Law 3Ls Joe Bailey and Eileen Bradley Place in the Finals at the National Telecommunications and Technology Moot Court Competition.
Pennsylvania has joined the 23 states plus the District of Columbia that allow or soon will allow certain individuals to use medical marijuana. While the Medical Marijuana Act (the “Act”) will not be fully implemented for 18 months or more, it will pose a number of challenges for employers. It is therefore critical that employers
As more cities reach the harsh realization that public financing for sports venues is a losing proposition for taxpayers, Philadelphia has now enacted a law aimed at recouping some of its money and boosting local workers’ earnings via mandated higher wages at public facilities. On October 21, Mayor Jim Kenney signed the prevailing wage bill into law
Six U.S. federal financial regulatory agencies[1] in May 2016 revised and re-proposed rules that were originally proposed in 2011, to govern the incentive compensation practices at financial institutions with consolidated assets of at least $1 billion (covered institutions). The proposed rules include new – and more stringent – requirements, especially for the largest institutions. The rules