April 27, 2007

Table of Contents

NEW AND NOTEWORTHY

• NFL Likely to Conduct Neurological Tests
* Injured? Learn About Your Legal Rights
• No Ruling in AT&T-NASCAR Case
* Lawyers For NASCAR, AT&T, and Nextel
• Mike Tyson, Coming To India, Demands Own Hotel Floor - And No Spicy Food
* Re-visit Tyson's Legal Entanglements
• Ramat Hasharon's Jackson Prevented From Leaving Israel
* Criminal Defense Lawyers In Israel
• USOC Chief Urges New Strategy Against Doping
* Doping - An Overview
• IOC Releases US$400,000 In Frozen Funds To Boxing Federation

COLLEGE ATHLETICS: THE TARNISHED TWENTY

• 6 Penn St. Football Players Face Charges
* The Penn. Prosecutor's Litigation Record
• NCAA Passes Text Messaging Ban
• Former DV Hoopster Arrested
• Students Arrested On Misdemeanor Firearm Charges
• Hawkeye Wrestler Arrested For Public Intoxication
* Defending DUI Charges

ARRESTING DEVELOPMENTS

• Drug Probe Leads to Vick's Property
* Do Dogs Have Legal Rights?
• Football Coach Arrested
• Saguaro High Substitute Teacher and Coach Arrested On Suspicion of Sexual Abuse
* Lawyers Who Represent Victims of Sexual Abuse
• Acadia Coach Arrested

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NEW AND NOTEWORTHY:

NFL LIKELY TO CONDUCT NEUROLOGICAL TESTS
(AP) - The NFL hopes to conduct pre-training camp neurological tests on players to determine susceptibility to concussions. Commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday during a meeting with sports editors that the league's medical committee has been working on a way to implement mandatory tests, perhaps as early as this summer when training camps open. That comes after a session at March's league meetings in Arizona in which officials and coaches agreed that head injuries need the closest monitoring. Read more...

Related Resources
• Injured? Learn About Your Legal Rights
• General Counsel For the NFL Player's Association

NO RULING IN AT&T-NASCAR CASE
(AP) - Jeff Burton's No. 31 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet will bear the familiar Cingular markings for at least two more weeks. There was no decision Thursday on AT&T's request for an injunction to have its logos placed on Burton's car. Instead, U.S. District court judge Marvin H. Schoob listened to almost four hours of arguments from NASCAR, AT&T and Nextel and then set May 7 as the deadline for briefs to be submitted in the case. Read more...

Related Resources
• David Gelfand, NASCAR's Lead N.Y. Lawyer
• David Balser, AT&T's Lead Lawyer
• Dayna B. Harmelin, Lawyer for Nextel

MIKE TYSON, COMING TO INDIA, DEMANDS OWN HOTEL FLOOR - AND NO SPICY FOOD
(AP) - Mike Tyson's biggest days of fame may be behind him, but when the former boxing champ comes to India to promote a Bollywood film, he is demanding to be treated like the heavyweight celebrity he once was. Among his conditions for the visit: no media; no spicy Indian food; and not one other person staying on the same floor of his hotel. Read more...

Related Resources
• Re-visit Tyson's Legal Entanglements

RAMAT HASHARON'S JACKSON PREVENTED FROM LEAVING ISRAEL
(Ha'aretz - Israel) - The Ramle Magistrate's Court yesterday issued an order preventing Deeana Jackson from leaving the country after the Anda Ramat Hasharon player punched Elitzur Ramle's Ina Gurevich at the conclusion of Ramle's 81-68 win on Wednesday night. The injunction will prevent Jackson from training with the WNBA's Chicago Sky next week...Gurevich filed an NIS 80,000 lawsuit against Jackson yesterday, and the court issued the injunction after deciding to conduct a hearing on Thursday. Read more...

Related Resources
• Find A Criminal Defense Lawyer In Israel

USOC CHIEF URGES NEW STRATEGY AGAINST DOPING
(AP) - The head of the U.S. Olympic Committee called for a new global anti-doping strategy Thursday, saying more needs to be spent on research and science to beat the drug cheats. Read more...

Related Resources
• Doping - An Overview

IOC RELEASES US$400,000 IN FROZEN FUNDS TO BOXING FEDERATION
(AP) - The IOC released US$400,000 in frozen funds to the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) on Thursday, citing progress in reforming the sport's scoring and judging systems. Read more...

COLLEGE ATHLETICS: THE TARNISHED TWENTY:

6 PENN ST. FOOTBALL PLAYERS FACE CHARGES
(AP) - Six Penn State football players, including stars Anthony Scirrotto and Justin King, turned themselves in to police on Friday to face charges following an off-campus apartment fight. Read more...

Related Resources
• The Penn. Prosecutor's Litigation Record


NCAA PASSES TEXT MESSAGING BAN
(AP) - College coaches will have to recruit the old-fashioned way next year. The NCAA's board of directors approved a ban Thursday to eliminate all text messages from coaches to recruits beginning in August, then left open the possibility of revisiting that legislation as early as 2008. Read more...


FORMER DV HOOPSTER ARRESTED
(Ahwatukee Foothills News, Arizona) - Former Desert Vista High School basketball player Xavier Kilby was arrested in Fort Collins, Colo., last week after he allegedly pointed a gun at a fellow basketball player and subsequently fired it into a couch, according to the Larimer County Sheriff’s office. Kilby, a freshman basketball player at Colorado State University this past season, got into a dispute with a teammate after an argument about going to church, authorities said. Read more...


STUDENTS ARRESTED ON MISDEMEANOR FIREARM CHARGES
(Daily Skiff, Texas Christian University Student Newspaper) - Two football players who were arrested last week on misdemeanor weapons charges after being confronted by an off-duty police officer are out on bond, according to court documents. Robert Leandro Henson, 21, and Stephen Eugene Hodge, 19, were arrested at about 12:15 a.m. April 20 at Southern Oaks apartment complex after a report by Officer K.D. Willingham, who was working security at the complex, according to a police report. Read more...


HAWKEYE WRESTLER ARRESTED FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION
(Des Moines Register) - Iowa Hawkeye wrestler Aaron Janssen has pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges stemming from his arrest this morning on charges of public intoxication, public urination and interference with official acts. Read more...

Related Resources
• Defending DUI Charges


ARRESTING DEVELOPMENTS:

DRUG PROBE LEADS TO VICK'S PROPERTY
(AP) - [Virginia] police conducting a drug investigation raided a house owned by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and found dozens of dogs, some injured and emaciated. Police also found items associated with dog fighting. Read more...

Related Resources
• Do Dogs Have Legal Rights?


FOOTBALL COACH ARRESTED
(Hartford Courant, Connecticut) - Police today charged a popular football coach at West Haven High School and four other people with participating in an illegal book making operation. Coach Edward McCarthy, 60, who is also a teacher at the high school, is charged with professional gambling, possession of gambling records, and using a telephone to transmit and receive gambling information. Read more...


SAGUARO HIGH SUBSTITUTE TEACHER AND COACH ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF SEXUAL ABUSE
(East Valley Tribune, Arizona) - Scottsdale police arrested a Saguaro High School substitute teacher and athletic coach Thursday after a 17-year-old girl said the man had unwanted sexual contact with her when she went to his house to receive a massage. Read more...

Related Resources
• Lawyers Who Represent Victims of Sexual Abuse


ACADIA COACH ARRESTED
(The Advertiser - Lafayette, La.) - Iota High coach Blaine Johnson, 31, was arrested Tuesday and charged with carnal knowledge of a female student in 2005 while an assistant football and assistant softball coach at Church Point High. Read more...