Weekly Combine Newsletter: 25 March 2022
In this week's newsletter, we share our latest articles exploring possible wide-ranging changes to forced arbitration agreements in the United States, and decisions from long-awaited and previously unpublished Court of Arbitration for Sport awards.
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Forced arbitration Bill passes U.S. House, NFL plaintiff Flores among supporters
Proposed legislation targeting forced arbitration clauses, introduced to Congress last March, has passed a U.S. House of Representatives vote late Thursday[U.S. time]. The legislation would impact U.S. sports arbitration and assist high-profile legal matters, including ex-NFL Coach Brian Flores’s ra…
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River Plate liable for fan conduct in stadium “surroundings”
A 2018 incident that caused questions to be asked as to whether clubs are strictly liable for the behaviour of their fans and to what extent was answered affirmatively in a long-awaited Award recently published by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (‘CAS’). The decision related to an incident occur…
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Nonchalant attitude enough to sink world champion for missed doping test
A Court of Arbitration for Sport (‘CAS’) Panel found a 2019 world athletics champion was negligent in missing a pre-arranged doping test despite her excuses that the testing officer attended the wrong building, causing her to miss last year’s Tokyo Olympics.
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Rio gold finally stripped from Kazak weightlifter for urine substitution offences
The Anti-Doping Division has finally stripped Nihat Rahimov of his 2016 Rio Olympics gold medal for his part in world weightlifting’s well-documented doping saga that included several urine substitution offences. Rahimov, who won gold in the men’s 77-kilogram class in Rio representing Kazakhstan, wa…
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