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Appeals court affirms that cheering is not a sport
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2012/08/10 12:39
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A federal appeals court has ruled that colleges cannot count competitive cheerleading as a sport when trying to comply with gender-equity requirements, upholding a U.S. District Court decision against Quinnipiac University.
In a decision released Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that competitive cheerleading does not yet meet the standards of a varsity sport under Title IX, the 1972 federal law that mandates equal opportunities for men and women in education and athletics.
The ruling comes on an appeal filed by Quinnipiac, a school with about 8,000 students in Hamden, which had been successfully sued by its volleyball coach after it tried to eliminate the women's volleyball program in favor of competitive cheering.
"Like the district court, we acknowledge record evidence showing that competitive cheerleading can be physically challenging, requiring competitors to possess 'strength, agility, and grace,' the court wrote. "Similarly, we do not foreclose the possibility that the activity, with better organization and defined rules, might someday warrant recognition as a varsity sport. But, like the district court, we conclude that the record evidence shows that 'that time has not yet arrived.'"
The appeals court agreed with U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill, who found in 2010 that competitive cheerleading did not have the organization, post-season structure or standardized rules required to be considered a varsity sport.
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Court overturns $1M award against U of M, Smith
U.S. Court News |
2012/08/08 12:39
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The Minnesota Supreme Court has overturned a $1 million award against the University of Minnesota and men's basketball coach Tubby Smith over the hiring of an assistant coach.
Jimmy Williams quit his job as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State in 2007 because he believed Smith had hiring authority when he offered him an assistant coaching job. Minnesota later withdrew the offer because Williams had NCAA rules violations during a previous stint as an assistant for the Golden Gophers more than 20 years ago.
Williams sued, and a Hennepin County jury and the state appeals court sided with him. But the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed those decisions, saying Williams was not entitled to protection against negligent misrepresentations from Smith about his hiring authority. |
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China Trademark & Patent Law Office
Law Firm News |
2012/08/07 11:26
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China Trademark & Patent Law Office (CTPLO) is a high qualified and professional intellectual property service firm. They have been providing services such as worldwide trademarks, industrial designs, patent and copyright registration since 2004. With its headquarters located in China, it has served several Chinese clients but has also assisted with clients overseas in other Asian territories. CTPLO has helped with the intellectual property rights around the world including foreign law firms to ensure the security and protection on behalf of their clients in China.
China Trademark & Patent Law Office can provide for you the intellectual property solutions you need. Based on Chinese Classification, our company will categorize your trademark into certain classes according to your goods and services. We can fully protect your interests in China by providing you with a trademark status report.
Patent
- Application process in patent filings in all fields including: mechanical, metallurgical, petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, light industrial, agricultural, electric, aeronautic and space engineering, oceanological and geological and other fields;
- Reviewing over patents, and request for revocation and abandonment of patent rights and other issues;
- Client appeals to the People’s Court; clients who are not satisfied with the decisions of patent review, revocation and abandonment concerning the patent right.
- Provide services involving consultation, investigation, obtaining evidences, request for administrative mediation, institution of legal proceedings in court for the interested party
Trademark
- Application process for trademark filings, requests for trademark reviews, adjudication of trademark opposition and the process of cancellation for improperly registered trademarks;
- Services for licensing and assignments of trademarks;
- Services for consultation, investigation, and obtaining evidence for trademark disputes;
- Infringement monitoring services for clients through networks established in the main cities of PRC
Copyright
- Legal services including copyright protection and registration of computer software;
- Other legal services on technical trade, investment, evaluation of intangible assets with respect to consultation, drafting of contract and negotiation;
- Translation of technical documents and other legal documents
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New DC drunken driving law to take effect
Law Firm News |
2012/08/03 16:41
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A new law that toughens penalties for drunken driving in the nation's capital takes effect Wednesday, but the city's police department still is not using breath tests on suspected drunken drivers more than a year after the tests were suspended.
The new law, which was approved by the D.C. Council and signed by Mayor Vincent Gray earlier this summer. It doubles mandatory minimum jail terms for people with blood-alcohol concentrations of .20 percent or higher and establishes a blood-alcohol limit of .04 percent for commercial drivers, including taxi drivers.
The law also establishes new oversight for the district's breath-testing program. But there's still no timetable to the resumption of breath tests, which D.C. police stopped using in February 2011 in the wake of revelations that their breath-testing devices had produced inaccurate results. Police have been using urine and blood tests instead.
A year earlier, District of Columbia officials had notified defense lawyers about nearly 400 drunken-driving convictions that relied, at least party, on inaccurately calibrated blood-alcohol tests.
More than two dozen people sued the district over convictions based on those flawed tests, and the district Attorney General's office said Tuesday that all the outstanding lawsuits had been settled. The district paid a total of $136,000 to 17 plaintiffs, with individuals receiving between $2,000 and $42,000, said Jeffrey Rhodes, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. |
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