Happy Holidays from our Bailey & Glasser, LLP family to yours.
As we celebrate the holiday season, we look back upon 2023 with gratitude and look forward to a new year full of happiness, joy, and health for you, your families, and your communities. We are deeply grateful to everyone for being part of our lives, and we look forward to being of service in 2024 and beyond.
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Ms. Magazine profiles our recent Title IX lawsuit against the University of Oregon on behalf of 32 women student-athletes from the women’s varsity beach volleyball and women’s club rowing teams. “I love the University of Oregon, but this hurtful, outrageous sex discrimination has to stop,” said Ashley Schroeder, student-athlete and lead plaintiff of the December 1, 2023 lawsuit against Oregon alleging sex discrimination in athletic participation opportunities, financial aid, and benefits and publicity.
“These young women did not go to school imagining they would sue their university, but they are committed to fighting for what is right,” said Bailey Glasser partner Lori Bullock.
“Title IX has been the law for more than 50 years. Oregon needs to comply with it, now,” said Arthur Bryant, Bailey Glasser’s Title IX team leader. “The history of Title IX has shown: If women want equality, they need to fight for it. So that’s what the women at Oregon are doing.”
Ms. Magazine details the historical nature of this lawsuit as it is the first ever to seek damages connected to NIL discrimination against women. Specifically, the women are suing for the lack of “support for opportunities to receive payments for use of their names, images and likenesses,” which Ms. Magazine notes could have significant implications for the finances of college athletics and the future of Title IX.
The plaintiffs are represented by BG’s Arthur Bryant, Lori Bullock, Cary Joshi, Joshua Hammack, Savanna Jones and Laura Babiak, along with local counsel Jennifer Middleton of Johnson Johnson Lucas & Middleton in Eugene, OR.
Read the full article here.
Learn more about the lawsuit here.
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Join Bailey Glasser Partner Patrick Muench December 12, 2023, at 1pm EST for a virtual webinar discussion on ERISA litigation involving Employee Stock Ownership Plans (“ESOPs”) hosted by the American Bar Association’s Joint Committee on Employee Benefits. This event will include a review of some common areas of dispute in ESOP cases and a summary of trends and recent court decisions.
Patrick litigates complex commercial cases with emphasis on ERISA, antitrust, and oil and gas disputes. He handles all aspects of these matters from discovery through trial. His experience includes winning a $30 million trial judgment in Brundle v. Wilmington Trust, a case involving breaches of duty by a trustee and complex valuations in an ESOP transaction. Learn more about Patrick Muench here.
To register and learn about CLE credits for this event, visit this link.
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Bailey Glasser’s lawsuit against the University of Oregon is front page news at sports publication Deadspin: “Oregon Just Got Hit With a Title IX Lawsuit and the Allegations are Rough.” Lori Bullock – Bailey Glasser partner, Title IX litigator, and co-lead counsel in this lawsuit – breaks down the lawsuit, sport economics, budget excuses, and delivers an excellent reality check about what Title IX requires.
Read the article here.
#titleix #equalathleticopportunity #equalrights #baileyglasser
Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Best Law Firms process, where we’ve been recognized in four National and 23 Metropolitan rankings. Our National rankings recognize our work in Litigation-ERISA, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Plaintiffs, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and Securities/Capital Markets Law.
Our Metro rankings include recognition for our work in Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, Business Organizations, Corporate Law, Litigation-Banking & Finance, Litigation-Bankruptcy, Product Liability-Plaintiffs, Civil Rights, and many more. For a full list of our rankings, please visit here.
For nearly 25 years, our firm has worked tenaciously on behalf of our clients, and we never take your good words for granted. Thank you for recognizing our work for another year.
Eugene, OR: Thirty-two female student-athletes filed a detailed sex discrimination class action over 100 pages long against the University of Oregon today for depriving women of equal treatment and benefits, equal athletic aid, and equal opportunities to participate in varsity intercollegiate athletics in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The case, filed by twenty-six women’s varsity beach volleyball team members and six women’s club rowing team members in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Oregon, seeks “to hold Oregon accountable for discriminating against all of its female student-athletes and potential student-athletes, make Oregon pay damages to the women it has deprived and is depriving of equal treatment and equal athletic financial aid, and stop Oregon from violating Title IX in the future.”
Title IX, a federal civil rights law, prohibits sex discrimination by the University of Oregon and all educational institutions that receive federal funds. The women’s beach volleyball team members “aim to hold Oregon accountable for depriving them and all varsity female student-athletes of equal treatment and equal athletic financial aid in violation of Title IX.” The women’s club rowing team members “seek to hold Oregon accountable for depriving them and all present and future female students at Oregon of equal opportunities to participate in varsity athletics.”
“Title IX has been the law for more than fifty years. Oregon needs to comply with it, now,” said BG partner Arthur H. Bryant, lead counsel for the women. “Three months ago, The Oregonian exposed the school’s blatant sex discrimination in a front-page investigative report: “Oregon Ducks beach volleyball players detail disparate treatment that experts say could violate Title IX.” But the school refuses to change its ways or even admit there is a problem. It has taught its women athletes what the history of Title IX has shown: If women want equality, they need to fight for it. So that’s what the women at Oregon are doing.”
“We are proud to represent these courageous women who have decided to stand up and fight for the equality Title IX requires and against the sex discrimination that Title IX prohibits,” said BG lead co-counsel Lori Bullock in Des Moines, Iowa. “These young women did not go to school imagining they would sue their university, but they are committed to fighting for what is right.”
Other members of the BG team on this case are partners Joshua Hammack and Cary Joshi, and associates Laura Babiak and Savanna Jones.
Arthur Bryant
, Bailey Glasser partner and Title IX team leader, was interviewed by On3NIL regarding a University of Utah-focused NIL collective team deal that provided all 85 scholarship football players – and no women athletes – new Dodge pickup trucks. “It appears to be a flagrant, stunningly obvious violation of Title IX that could cost the school millions of dollars,” Bryant told On3.
The NIL deal by the “Crimson Collective” announced that it would be giving leases to 2024 Dodge Ram trucks to Utah’s scholarship football players for free. The article calls the truck deal a “high-profile example of the complex Title IX question that the broader college athletics industry is wrestling with more than two years into NIL.”
Title IX is a 51-year-old federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination by any school that receives federal funding and stipulates schools must provide male student-athletes and female student-athletes with equal treatment and benefits.
Bryant noted that a video released announcing the deal, which visibly displayed the university’s logo, “undercut[s] any notion that the university was not involved in the truck deal.” He added: “ Female student-athletes at Utah need to hold the school accountable – no one else will do it. The history of Title IX has shown that women don’t get equality unless they are willing to fight for it.”
To learn more, read the full article here.
#NIL #TitleIX #TitleIXAthletics #BaileyGlasser
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution covers a new lawsuit brought by law firms Bailey Glasser and Wheeles Garmon. David Selby II, partner and Mass Tort Practice Group chair is leading the litigation on behalf of Bailey Glasser. “The guns fire without pulling the trigger, and they fire when they shouldn’t fire,” Selby told AJC.
The article delves into a nationwide class action lawsuit filed on Friday in Georgia against firearm manufacturer and distributor Taurus, which seeks to have Taurus institute a robust notice and recall program. It is our position that the pistols cannot be repaired.
The suit alleges, among other things, violations of Georgia’s Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act and seeks unspecified damages to compensate thousands of affected gun owners, including the profits Taurus made from producing the allegedly defective firearms and notes that “[f]or years, (the Taurus companies) have knowingly manufactured, marketed, and distributed thousands of defective (GX4) pistols to consumers . . . Specifically, the defect causes the trigger of the [GX4] pistols to move rearward when the pistol is subjected to an impact or dropped.”
“We certainly anticipate there unfortunately will be more (harmful incidents) because the guns are out there,” Selby said.
To learn more, read the full article here.
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In the most recent episode of the Mass Tort News Legalcast, Bailey Glasser partner Todd Mathews discusses how the firm is helping survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of the State of Maryland acting through the Department of Juvenile Services and its predecessors find closure, healing, and accountability.
The discussion also touches on other states’ approaches to addressing child abuse cases, with some implementing limited windows of opportunity for survivors to file claims. Todd points out the challenges of addressing these cases, especially the need for a sensitive and compassionate approach, avoiding the re-traumatization of survivors.
Switching gears, the conversation touches on recent developments in the legal field, particularly in relation to Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its potential third bankruptcy filing. Todd expresses his concern and disapproval of such actions, which he views as an abuse of the bankruptcy process to delay compensating victims further. He also addresses the viability of the Camp Lejeune docket, highlighting how recent issues with case attrition and unethical practices in the legal field can impact its resolution.
BG Partner and Title IX litigator Lori Bullock shares her insights on the latest podcast episode of “Talking Title IX and College Sports.” This episode covers the dispute with Florida State University which started after an investigative report published in USA Today revealed that FSU was not providing equitable opportunities for women athletes under Title IX. Lori, BG partner Arthur Bryant, and student Sophia Villalonga led an effort to elevate women’s lacrosse to varsity status. In October of 2023, FSU announced that a varsity women’s lacrosse program was expected to debut in the spring of 2026 and the university also agreed to conduct a full gender equity assessment of its athletic program and address any issues relating to gender equity for women athletes at FSU.
To listen to the episode, click here.
To learn more about the FSU matter and the settlement negotiated by Bailey Glasser, visit here.
