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In 1995 the Gender in Equity Disclosure Act was passed to require schools to make an annual, public report on male-female athletic participation rates, recruiting by gender, and financial support. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown University v. Cohen, is an important aspect of litigation for women's sports.
The Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act is a United States law (codified at 36 U.S.C. Sec. 220501 et seq. of the United States Code) that charters and grants monopoly status to the United States Olympic Committee, and specifies requirements for its member national governing bodies for individual sports.
San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee, 483 U.S. 522 (1987), is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States interpreting the trademark rights of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to regulate the use of the word "Olympic" under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
Last year’s All-Star Game, like many others save for 2020, was panned by fans and media for lack of competition. It was the lowest-rated All-Star Game in the last 10 years, a trend the league ...
The Sports Broadcasting Act was passed in response to a U.S. District Court decision which ruled that the National Football League's method of negotiating television broadcasting rights violated antitrust laws. [2] [3] The court ruled that the "pooling" of rights by all the teams to conclude an exclusive contract between the league and CBS was ...
To stop the next Ticketmaster-style meltdown, Congress must pass the TICKET Act before the buzzer—Sports Fans Coalition. Brian Hess. November 15, 2024 at 5:20 PM.
The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102–559), also known as PASPA or the Bradley Act, was a law, judicially-overturned in 2018, that was meant to define the legal status of sports betting throughout the United States. This act effectively outlawed sports betting nationwide, excluding a few states.
In 1992, the U.S. Congress passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), 28 U.S.C. §§ 3701-3704, to prohibit state-sanctioned sports gambling. The law stated that states may not "sponsor, operate, advertise, promote, license, or authorize by law or compact" sports gambling. [5]