Key Sports Law Cases And Developments Of 2021 – North America

As we come to the end of a turbulent and challenging year, we wanted to take the opportunity to highlight the important legal cases and developments from the world of sports law of 2021.

Therefore, we invited members of our Editorial and Advisory Board, who are experts in this field, to share their opinions on what they consider to be the key sports law cases & developments from 2021. In this article are the responses from our North America members.

With so much happening in 2021, we have produced a series of articles to help identify key cases and issues from 2021 in specific jurisdictions, as well as helping to detect broader global themes.

We would like to thank each member of our Editorial and Advisory Board for taking the time out of their busy schedules to share their views with us, and also more broadly for their significant input into LawInSport over the course of the year.  Thank you.

Contributors:

• Jodi S Balsam, Associate Professor Of Clinical Law/Director Of Externship Programs, Brooklyn Law School
  • A Revolution in College Athletics
• Jeremi Duru, Professor Of Law, Washington College Of Law American University
  • Major League Baseball’s Cleveland franchise changing its name
• Mark Conrad, Director of the Sports Business Concentration and Associate Professor of Law and Ethics, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University (New York)
  • The liberation of college sports athletes
• Glenn Wong, Executive Director, Sports Law & Business, Arizona State University (With the Assistance of Cameron C. Miller, Lawyer, Washington D.C.)
  • A new day dawned on college sports in 2021
• Aaron Swerdlow, Partner, Weinberg Gonser LLP
  • Introduction of NCAA Laws Allowing for Use of Student Athlete Image and Likeness
• Kate Porter, Partner, Vela Wood
  • Relevent Sports, LLC v. U.S. Soccer Federation
• Lindsay Brandon, Attorney, Law Offices of Howard L. Jacobs
  • Improved approach to apparent meat contamination and diuretic cases
• Maureen Weston, Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, Malibu, CA, USA
  • A New Era in US College Sports
• Ricky Volante, CEO & Co-Founder, The Professional Collegiate League
  • St. Louis and Stan Kroenke settle a lawsuit
• James Bunting & Carlos Sayao, Tyr LLP
  • IOC Releases Framework on Eligibility of Transgender Athletes and Athletes with DSDs
• Daniel Greene, Attorney, Newman & Lickstein
  • NLRB Signals that College Athletes are Employees