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Philadelphia And Sports Law, Adam Epstein, Brian Halsey Aug 2017

Philadelphia And Sports Law, Adam Epstein, Brian Halsey

Adam Epstein

From birth to death and from race to Rocky, one would be hard-pressed to demonstrate that a city has had more of a cultural and legal impact on sports generally and sports law specifically than the city of Philadelphia. The purpose of this article is to introduce Philadelphia-based cases and incidents that have influenced sports law, sometimes at a national level. This piece serves historical, legal and pedagogical purposes, and we hope it will also serve as a springboard to further research regarding the City of Brotherly Love. Tort law and the criminal law are the most prevalent cases within …


Michigan High Schools Now In Sync, Adam Epstein Dec 2006

Michigan High Schools Now In Sync, Adam Epstein

Adam Epstein

A discussion of the important case involving a decade of litigation involving the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) and its insistence that the six girls' sports seasons that did not coincide with the boys' seasons was legal. However, the MHSAA lost its case and high school sports seasons changed beginning fall 2007 to comply with the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX.