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  1. February 14, 2025

    Off The Bench: Trans EO, Cards Arbitration, NASCAR Revs Up

    In this week's Off The Bench, litigation begins over President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender individuals from competing in women's sports, a former Arizona Cardinals executive's defamation suit against the team is shuffled to arbitration, and NASCAR asks an appeals panel to reverse wins handed to two teams in their antitrust suit.

  2. February 13, 2025

    NASCAR Asks 4th Circ. To Quash Injunctions In Antitrust Row

    NASCAR urged the Fourth Circuit in an opening brief to reverse injunctions that forced the organization to offer charter contracts to two teams suing the organization for alleged antitrust violations, arguing that any of the lower court's "many errors warrants reversal" and could have broader implications.

  3. January 29, 2025

    Veteran BigLaw Atty To Mediate NASCAR Antitrust Dispute

    A North Carolina federal court has appointed an attorney with nearly four decades of experience at Proskauer Rose LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP to mediate the antitrust feud between NASCAR and two racing teams.

  4. January 10, 2025

    NASCAR Loses Bid To Toss Racing Teams' Antitrust Suit

    A North Carolina federal judge on Friday denied NASCAR's motion to dismiss a lawsuit lodged by two racing teams that accused the organization of maintaining a monopoly, saying it is too early to determine a dismissal because the teams sufficiently alleged antitrust claims.

  5. January 08, 2025

    Michael Jordan 'Bought Into' System, NASCAR Tells NC Judge

    NASCAR implored a North Carolina federal judge on Wednesday to throw out portions of an antitrust suit brought by Michael Jordan's team and award a $36 million bond, saying it was the teams themselves who demanded the contracts they now claim are monopolistic.

  6. January 02, 2025

    NASCAR Takes Attempt To Block Jordan Team To 4th Circ.

    NASCAR is asking the Fourth Circuit to hear its appeals of the injunctions a North Carolina federal judge granted to two racing teams, which allowed them to compete in the upcoming season and stopped the organization from enforcing its contractual ban on antitrust claims.

  7. January 01, 2025

    NC Cases To Watch In 2025: NASCAR Fight, Healthcare Rows

    NASCAR is fighting antitrust claims in North Carolina even after removing a controversial exclusivity clause from its race team contracts, and the Tar Heel State's medical industry could see massive shake-ups from a challenge to a healthcare competition law and alleged impropriety in a major hospital system acquisition.

  8. December 23, 2024

    NASCAR Can't Pause Jordan Team's Win In Antitrust Case

    A North Carolina federal judge won't pause his order blocking NASCAR from enforcing its antitrust release in racing contracts — including one for a team owned by former NBA star Michael Jordan — for the 2025 season, saying Monday that he did not grant the injunction lightly.

  9. December 20, 2024

    NASCAR Wants Jordan Team's Win Paused For Appeal

    NASCAR wants to press pause on a court order that stops it from blocking teams that have asserted antitrust claims against the league from its races, telling the judge who handed down the preliminary injunction that it thinks the Fourth Circuit will be on its side.

  10. December 20, 2024

    Off The Bench: Jordan's NASCAR Dunk, NIL Attys' Payday

    In this week's Off The Bench, Michael Jordan's racing team scores an early-stage win in its antitrust battle with NASCAR, attorneys engineering a historic settlement with the NCAA seek more than half a billion dollars in fees, and the fracas over college sports realignment makes headaches for the Mountain West Conference.