The Fordham Sports Law Forum is dedicated to bringing interesting issues in sports law to the Fordham legal community. Each week, in conjunction with the Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, members of the Fordham Sports Law Forum write posts about current sports law issues and events. There’s No Dodging Selig: Bankruptcy in MLB [...]

With the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (“CBA”), between the thirty Major League Baseball (“MLB”) organizations and the Players Association, set to expire on December 31, 2011, both sides have begun to discuss key issues which most likely will arise in the upcoming negotiation process.  One particularly hot topic has been the proposal to add two [...]

During an investigation into Bay Area Lab Co-operative (BALCO) that began in 2002, federal agents identified ten baseball players whom they believed obtained steroids from the company.  As a part of its search, the government seized electronic data from a third-party company, Comprehensive Drug Testing, which collected the test samples of a 2003 anonymous drug [...]