LEGAL CONCERNS: Why New Laws Regarding Sports Violence Aren’t Necessary
Why Statutes Criminalizing Assaults on Sports Officials Are Still a Bad Idea By Doug Abrams Tragedy struck in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah on April 27. Forty-six-year-old youth soccer referee Ricardo Portillo took a single punch to the head from a 17-year-old goalkeeper who was angered about being shown a yellow card (a … Read more
LEGAL CONCERNS: When Kids Kill Refs….
It’s still hard to believe that a 17-year-old soccer goalie – apparently upset by being tagged with a yellow card in a soccer match – was so incensed that he went up to the unsuspecting ref and punched him hard enough in the head to kill him. But of course, that’s exactly what happened in … Read more
LEGAL CONCERNS: Does the Steubenville HS Football Coach Have Any Culpability in this Mess?
What Steubenville Tells Us About Coaches’ Legal Obligations to Report Rape and Other Child Abuse By Doug Abrams The nation took notice on Sunday morning, March 17, when juvenile court judge Thomas Lipps found two Steubenville, Ohio high school football stars delinquent for digitally raping a drunk, and nearly unconscious, 16-year-old … Read more
LEGAL CONCERNS: 17-Year-old Soccer Player Sucker Punches Ref Who Subsequently Dies
I did my radio show this AM talking with Tony DeLillo, a long-term board member and supervisor of umpires in the Elmsford (NY) LL. Tony spent much of the hour, discussing how he prepares the umps in his league (most of the umps are kids themselves, primarily teenagers), on how to handle unruly adult coaches … Read more
LEGAL CONCERNS: How Can We Prevent Future Steubenville Cases?
The Steubenville Rape Case and the Value of Sex-Abuse Prevention Classes in the Schools By Doug Abrams On Sunday morning, March 17, juvenile court judge Thomas Lipps found two Steubenville, Ohio high school football stars delinquent for digitally raping a drunk, and nearly unconscious, 16-year-old girl during a night of wild partying following … Read more
LEGAL CONCERNS: WHAT’S THE NEXT CHAPTER IN STEUBENVILLE?
TWO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS FOUND GUILTY OF RAPE IN STEUBENVILLE, OHIO. …. NOW WHAT? By Steve Kallas Well, if you followed the trial and (correctly) assumed that there was an impartial judge (Judge Thomas Lipps was brought in from out of town after the local juvenile court judge recused himself because his granddaughter had … Read more
LEGAL CONCERNS: STEUBENVILLE HS FOOTBALL PLAYERS CONVICTED OF RAPE
I introduced my WFAN radio show this AM by saying that the alcohol-fueled incident that occurred last summer in Steubenville, OH was a total lose-lose for everybody involved. That includes the 16-year-old victim who was raped by two HS football players who fingered vaginally when she was unconscious from excessing drinking…for the boys who were convicted this … Read more
LEGAL ISSUES: HOCKEY COACH SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR POST-GAME ACTIONS IN YOUTH LEAGUE
Pee Wee Hockey Coach Gets Jail Time For Tripping 13-Year-Old Opponent in Post-Game Handshake Line By Doug Abrams It was a malicious act by a youth league coach who should have known better. A mighty costly act too, and one whose outcome I hope will help send a message to adults who feel tempted … Read more
LEGAL CONCERNS: What Does Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s Proclamation Regrding Kids with Disabilities being Given More Opportunities to Play HS Sports Really Mean?
If you have a child who has a disability, Secretary Duncan’s edict this past week that student-athletes are to be given every chance to play - and compete — on public school teams had to come as welcome news. As law professor Doug Abrams pointed out on my show, the benefits of playing sports for … Read more
LEGAL CONCERNS: Children with Disabilities – What the New Directives Mean
Equal Sports Opportunities for Children with Disabilities: The U.S. Department of Education’s New Directive By Doug Abrams On January 25, the U.S. Department of Education instructed the nation’s public school districts that federal disability law requires them to “provide students with disabilities an equal opportunity to participate alongside their peers in after-school athletics.” … Read more
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Doug Abrams
Rick Wolff
Steve Kallas
