{"id":570820,"date":"2026-04-08T01:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:07:20","slug":"kc-sports-entertainment-law-weekly-roundup-april-2026-kaufman-canoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570820\/","title":{"rendered":"K&#038;C Sports &#038; Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup &#8211; April 2026 | Kaufman &#038; Canoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports:<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Women&#8217;s National Basketball Association &#8220;abused its monopolistic control&#8221; of women&#8217;s pro basketball when it allowed the Connecticut Sun to be sold to an owner who is moving it to Houston, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told the U.S. Department of Justice in a letter on Monday. <a aria-label=\"Blumenthal Demands DOJ Open Antitrust Investigation into... (opens in a new window)\" data-externalized=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blumenthal.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press\/release\/blumenthal-demands-doj-open-antitrust-investigation-into-wnbas-interference-with-sale-of-connecticut-sun\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">Blumenthal Demands DOJ Open Antitrust Investigation into&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n\tA Pennsylvania federal judge has further narrowed a shareholder class action accusing Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods of misleading investors about inventory levels and losses because of theft after the COVID-19 pandemic, disagreeing with a magistrate judge on the actionability of some of the suit&#8217;s challenged statements. <a aria-label=\"Lawsuit claims Dick&#039;s Sporting Goods executives misled shareholders - Pittsburgh Business Times (opens in a new window)\" data-externalized=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/05\/05\/dicks-lawsuit-by-shareholder.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">Lawsuit claims Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods executives misled shareholders &#8211; Pittsburgh Business Times<\/a><br \/>\n\tA Florida federal jury awarded $110,000 in damages to an attorney who said an AIG unit refused to pay costs while defending a sports memorabilia company&#8217;s former CEO against securities violations after the insurer claimed the executive&#8217;s policy had exhausted its benefits. <a aria-label=\"Jury Says AIG Unit Owes Atty $110K For Defense Costs (opens in a new window)\" data-externalized=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/v6IXCW6A94IzMOJ7CESQToKHJZ?domain=law360.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">Jury Says AIG Unit Owes Atty $110K For Defense Costs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Entertainment:<\/p>\n<p>LAWSUITS OF THE RICH &amp; FAMOUS<\/p>\n<p>MUSIC<\/p>\n<p>TELEVISION &amp; FILM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports: The Women&#8217;s National Basketball Association &#8220;abused its monopolistic control&#8221; of women&#8217;s pro basketball when it allowed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-570820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}