Sports Law in a Nutshell

by Champion, Walter T., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780314238894
• ISBN10: 0314238891
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: West Group

Summary

Common Law and Equitable Remedies for Breach of Contract; Expectation Damages; Restitution; Reliance Damages; Specific Performance; Contracts for the Sale of Goods: Buyers' and Sellers' Remedies Under Article II of the UCC; Remedies Available to Buyer When He Has Not Accepted the Goods; Remedies Available to Buyer After He Has Accepted the Goods, Including Remedies for Breach of Warranty; Remedies Available to Seller When Buyer Defaults and Has Not Accepted the Goods; Remedies Available to Seller After Buyer has Accepted the Goods; Contractual Control Over Remedy; Liquidated Damages Clauses; Contractual Modification or Limitation of Remedy Under UCC 2-719; Remedies for Mistake and Unconscionability; Mistake in the Formation of an Agreement -- The Recission and Restitution Remedies; Mistake in Integration or Expression The Reformation Remedy: Mistake in Performance of an Obligation The Restitution Remedy; Unconscionability.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction to First Edition	ix
Introduction to Second Edition	xiii
Table Of Cases	xxvii
Contracts	1	(14)
Formation	1	(2)
Offer	1	(1)
Acceptance	2	(1)
Interpretation	2	(1)
Standard Player's Contract	3	(3)
Specialty Clauses	6	(2)
Option	6	(1)
Reserve	7	(1)
No--Cut	7	(1)
Collateral Agreements	8	(1)
Terminations	9	(1)
Assignments	9	(1)
Remedies	10	(1)
Defenses	11	(2)
Unclean Hands	12	(1)
Unconscionability	12	(1)
Mutuality	13	(1)
Negotiating the Contract	13	(2)
Agents	15	(11)
Background	15	(1)
Standard Representation Agreements	15	(1)
Duties	16	(2)
Conflicts of Interest	18	(1)
Registration of Agents	19	(4)
State Legislation	19	(1)
Union Regulations	20	(2)
NCAA--Based	22	(1)
Criminal Liability	23	(1)
Representing the Athlete	24	(2)
Financial Considerations	26	(13)
Taxation	26	(2)
Gross Income	27	(1)
Planning	27	(1)
Assignment of Income	28	(1)
Deferrals	29	(3)
By Contract	29	(1)
By Pension Plans	29	(2)
Substantially Non--Vested Property	31	(1)
Tax--sheltered Investments	32	(1)
Incorporation	33	(1)
Financial Planning	34	(5)
Preservation of Capital	34	(1)
Tax Minimization	35	(1)
Protection against Risk	36	(1)
Estate Planning	36	(3)
Labor Law	39	(13)
National Labor Relations Act	39	(2)
Unions and Management	41	(3)
Collective Bargaining Generally	44	(1)
The Collective Bargaining Agreement	45	(1)
Concerted Actions	45	(2)
Strikes	46	(1)
Lockouts	46	(1)
Arbitration and Mediation	47	(5)
Grievance	50	(1)
Salary	50	(2)
Antitrust	52	(19)
Generally	52	(4)
Exemptions	56	(5)
Baseball	56	(1)
Labor Exemption	57	(1)
NFL Exemptions	58	(1)
Non--Statutory Labor Exemption	58	(3)
Player Restraints	61	(1)
Franchise Movement	62	(2)
League Versus League	64	(1)
TV Packaging	65	(1)
Cable TV	66	(2)
Amateur Sports	68	(1)
Miscellaneous	69	(2)
Torts	71	(24)
Negligence	71	(4)
Duty of Care	72	(1)
Standard of Care	72	(1)
Breach of Duty	73	(1)
Proximate Cause	74	(1)
Damages	74	(1)
Medical Malpractice	75	(12)
Duty of Care	76	(1)
Duty to Disclose and Informed Consent	77	(2)
Fraudulent Concealment	79	(3)
Team Physicians	82	(4)
Failure to Refer and Vicarious Liability	86	(1)
Product's Liability	87	(1)
Strict Liability	88	(1)
Warranty Liability	89	(1)
Facility Liability	90	(4)
Status of Injured Party	90	(1)
Invitees	91	(1)
Minors	92	(1)
Unreasonably Hazardous Conditions	93	(1)
Design, Construction, Maintenance and Repair	93	(1)
Professional Sports	94	(1)
Participant Injuries	95	(9)
Generally	95	(2)
Violation of Safety Rules	97	(1)
Unsportsmanlike Conduct	98	(1)
Professional Sports	99	(1)
Contact Sports	100	(1)
Third Persons	101	(3)
Spectator Injuries	104	(11)
Generally	104	(1)
Baseball	105	(3)
Golf	108	(1)
Hockey, Car Races and Wrestling	109	(2)
Minors	111	(2)
Facilities	113	(2)
School Liability	115	(7)
Negligence	115	(2)
Vicarious Liability	117	(1)
Failure to Warn	118	(1)
Failure to Instruct	118	(1)
Failure to Hire Competent Coaches	118	(1)
Failure to Properly Supervise	119	(1)
Failure to Maintain Equipment and Facilities	120	(2)
Coach Liability	122	(12)
Generally	122	(3)
Qualifications	125	(3)
Preparation of Participants	128	(4)
Supervision	132	(2)
Referee Liability	134	(6)
Duty to Enforce Rules	135	(1)
Duty to Protect Participants	136	(1)
Duty to Warn	136	(1)
Anticipating Reasonably Foreseeable Dangers	137	(1)
Failure to Control Game	138	(2)
Defamation	140	(16)
Sportswriters	140	(1)
Per se	141	(2)
Public Figures	143	(5)
Rule of Repose	148	(1)
Invasion of Privacy	149	(2)
Defenses	151	(5)
Tort Defenses	156	(30)
Generally	156	(1)
Assumption of Risk	156	(10)
Expressed	159	(1)
Implied	160	(1)
Jockeys and Car Racers	161	(2)
Skiing, Golf and Baseball	163	(3)
Minors	166	(1)
Contributory Negligence	166	(3)
Comparative Negligence	169	(1)
Warnings	170	(1)
Waivers	171	(7)
Foot Races	174	(2)
Car Races	176	(1)
Minors	177	(1)
Sovereign Immunity	178	(6)
Discretionary Acts	181	(2)
Policy Considerations	183	(1)
Charitable Immunity	184	(1)
Recreational Use Statutes	185	(1)
Workers' Compensation	186	(7)
Professional Sports	186	(3)
Collegiate Sports	189	(1)
Employer-Based Sports	189	(2)
Non--Participants	191	(2)
Criminal Liability	193	(8)
Violence in Sports	193	(2)
Criminal Action Generally	195	(1)
Inherently Violent Sports	196	(2)
Battery	198	(1)
The Canadian Approach	199	(2)
Amateur Sports	201	(6)
Generally	201	(1)
Administration	201	(1)
Status of Athlete	202	(1)
Rule-making	203	(1)
NCAA	204	(3)
Eligibility	207	(20)
Generally	207	(1)
Scope of Eligibility Rules	207	(1)
Participation as a Right or Privilege	208	(3)
State Actors	211	(2)
Due Process and Equal Protection	213	(3)
Types of Rules	216	(5)
Red Shirting	216	(1)
No Transfer Rules	217	(1)
Anti-marriage	218	(1)
``No-agent'' Rule	219	(2)
Proposition 48 and Progeny	221	(2)
No Pass, No Play Statutes	223	(4)
The Disabled Athlete	227	(9)
Generally	227	(1)
Eligibility to Participate	228	(3)
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act	231	(2)
Americans with Disabilities Act	233	(3)
College Scholarships	236	(12)
The Nature of Scholarships	236	(2)
Scholarships as Contracts	238	(4)
Workers' Compensation	242	(2)
Taxation	244	(2)
Employee Status	246	(2)
International Sports	248	(8)
Olympics	248	(1)
Amateur Sports Act of 1978	249	(3)
Boycotts	252	(1)
Drug Testing	253	(3)
Discipline and Penalties	256	(7)
Power to Discipline and Penalize Generally	256	(1)
NCAA	257	(2)
Power to Sanction	257	(1)
Death Penalty	258	(1)
High School Sports	259	(1)
Professional Sports	260	(3)
Drug Testing	263	(9)
Generally	263	(1)
Professional Sports	263	(2)
Amateur Sports	265	(3)
Right of Privacy	268	(1)
Reasonableness of Search	269	(1)
Due Process and Equal Protection	270	(2)
Sex Discrimination	272	(14)
Discrimination Generally	272	(2)
Separate but Equal	274	(1)
Contact and Non-contact Sports	275	(1)
Title IX	276	(5)
Application	277	(1)
Grove City and Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987	278	(3)
Equal Protection	281	(3)
State ERA's	284	(2)
Intellectual Property	286	(9)
Generally	286	(1)
The Nature of Marketing	286	(1)
Athletes as Entertainers	287	(1)
Patents	288	(1)
Copyrights	289	(1)
Trademarks	290	(3)
Trade Dress	293	(2)
Appendices	295	(108)
Index	403