Sports Law News for Week Ending April 15
By Bennett Liebman
Commanders Ticket Scandal Now Before the FTC and Lina Khan
https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2022/commanders-ticket-scandal-1234671082/
Washington Commanders Tickets Revenue Withheld Daniel Snyder Congress
https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2022/washington-commanders-tickets-1234670949/
Congress details Commanders' 'potentially unlawful' financial conduct in letter to FTC
https://theathletic.com/news/washington-commanders-financial-conduct-allegations/Ewvp1IK646ZK/
Washington Commanders may have engaged in 'unlawful' conduct
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/12/washington-commanders-dan-snyder-house-oversight-ftc/
AGs Call Foul on NFL Gender Discrimination
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ags-call-foul-on-nfl-gender-2928849/
Deshaun Watson Lawsuits Negligence Claims Could Mean Evidence for NFL
https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2022/deshaun-watson-lawsuits-1234670915/
Browns QB Deshaun Watson facing new pressure in lawsuits over massages
Football Asks Me to Make Moral Compromises
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/09/opinion/football-moral-compromises.html
Buyer Won't Have to Pay for Brady's Last Touchdown Ball
https://www.actionnetwork.com/nfl/buyer-wont-have-to-pay-for-bradys-last-touchdown-ball
Suit: Ex-XFL commissioner Oliver Luck didn't deserve 'excessive' compensation
https://theathletic.com/3250065/2022/04/14/xfl-lawsuit-oliver-luck-commissioner/?source=emp_shared_article
Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai is the face of NBA's uneasy China relationship
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33723055/brooklyn-nets-owner-joe-tsai-face-nba-uneasy-china-relationship
Lerner family to explore selling the Washington Nationals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/11/washington-nationals-lerners-potential-sale/
Putin's actions go against the spirit of sport
How do you solve a problem like Russia?
WADA Compliance Review Committee keeps Ukraine anti-doping compliance suspended
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1121873/wada-compliance-review-committee-ukraine
Will transgender sports rally conservative voters?
How NCAA Athletes and Brands Can Avoid Big Mistakes in NIL Influencer Agreements
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/how-ncaa-athletes-and-brands-can-avoid-8008501/
The NFL should withdraw the Super Bowl LVII from Arizona
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/nfl-withdraw-super-bowl-lvii-arizona-heres/
Racism and The Rooney Rule:
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/nfl-withdraw-super-bowl-lvii-arizona-heres/
There's a new law in Kentucky banning transgender women in sports
Iowa lawsuit over transgender athlete ban likely to proceed
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/lawsuit-over-idaho-transgender-athlete-ban-likely-to-proceed-1.5863220
U.S. Supreme Court taking on case of high school football coach fighting for right to pray
Nick Saban has right answers for NIL
Triple Crown 2022: Bob Baffert suspended from another race
Lazarus asks racing commissions to give HISA 'a chance'
https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/HISAs_Lazarus_asks_racing_commissions_to_give_authori