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  • September 28, 2026

    Senate Passes Protect College Sports Act

    The Senate voted 77-22 on Monday night to pass legislation to impose sweeping regulations on college sports, a multibillion dollar industry. 

  • September 28, 2026

    Trump Admin Reinstates Former Title IX Regs

    The U.S. Department of Education on Monday said it's formally repealing a vacated Biden-era rule that attempted to expand Title IX discrimination protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity and reinstating a rule the Trump administration enacted in 2020.

  • September 28, 2026

    Golden Nugget Wants Dealer's Wage Suit Tossed Again

    Atlantic City's Golden Nugget casino again moved to dismiss a table game dealer's wage lawsuit, adding new arguments against two tip credit notice claims while renewing its bid to send state law claims to New Jersey's casino regulators and toss a federal overtime claim.

  • September 28, 2026

    NASCAR Team Says Docket Error Doesn't Warrant Default

    Joe Gibbs Racing has asked a North Carolina federal judge not to hand its former competition director and his current NASCAR team an entry of default over an inadvertently missed deadline, arguing it has so far participated fully in the litigation.

  • September 28, 2026

    Widow's Suit Against NFL Too Complex To Be Arbitrated

    A New Jersey state judge removed from arbitration a lawsuit by a widow alleging the NFL's filming unit overworked a staffer on the league's docuseries "Hard Knocks" to the point of exhaustion and caused his fatal car accident, finding that the complexity of the case requires it to be resolved in court.

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