The Sports Business Journal reports that lawyers on behalf of former UFC fighters intend to depose Dana White as part of the antitrust lawsuit ongoing in federal court in Nevada. The lawsuit is in its discovery phase with both lawyers for the plaintiffs and lawyers for the UFC exchanging documents. Depositions involving key witnesses has […]
Antitrust Class Action
Over a year later, Judge Boulware publishes opinion in Zuffa’s Motion to Dismiss
Judge Richard Boulware has filed his Order on Zuffa’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint in the antitrust lawsuit venued in Nevada. The hearing was on September 25, 2015. The order was finally entered on October 19, 2016. Talk about a backlog of work for a federal judge. But, from my understanding, this is typical […]
Show Money Episode 8 talks MMA Free Agency, PBC and more
UFC files Answer to Plaintiffs’ Complaint, parties fight over discovery process
Last week, attorneys for the UFC filed its Answer to Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint in the ongoing Antitrust lawsuit venued in Nevada. The rather long (27 pages to be exact) goes through each and every paragraph of the Plaintiffs’ Complaint. After the court denied the UFC’s motion to dismiss, per the rules of federal civil procedure, […]
Top Rank survives Haymon’s Motion to Dismiss
Top Rank Boxing withstood another motion to dismiss from Al Haymon in the ongoing lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles. The Honorable John Walter ruled, without oral argument, that Top Rank’s Second Amended Complaint was sufficient enough to survive a motion to dismiss. A hearing on the motion to dismiss was to be heard […]