Under the Amateur Sports Act, all disputes between American athletes and the U.S. Olympic Committee must be submitted to arbitration for resolution
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The 1996 Summer Olympic Games marks the first time in Olympic history that participating athletes must resolve controversies arising during the games in the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an international arbitration panel. The US has long recognized the importance of arbitration for resolving the disputes of sports organizations governed by the US Olympic Committee and amateur athletes. The Amateur Sports Act of 1978 responded to the poor management of amateur sports in this country and decreased American achievement in the Olympic Games. Arbitration hopes to resolve sports disputes with impartiality and speed.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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Forget pensions and gold watches
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The American dream has always dictated that pay increases would reward superior performance and length of service, however, the 1990s saw the demise of that dream with massive downsizing in American corporations. This downsizing took place at the rate of 1 to 2 mil a year and to accomplish it, corporations needed immunity from the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which the Supreme Court delivered with the 1993 ruling of Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins ruling that age and years of service were analytically distinct. The ADEA has seemed in increasing danger since then.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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Practice law and go for Olympic gold
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At least a dozen of the competitors in the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics are law students or lawyers. They include Pablo Morales, a swimmer and law student at Stanford; Patty Sue Plumer, a runner on leave from her job as labor attorney at Palo Alto, CA's Holtzmann, Wise & Shepard; Chris Campbell, a wrestler and attorney at United Technologies Corp in Syracuse, NY; and Craig Masback, a runner and student at Yale Law School.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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