Legal Considerations
Title IX
Alcohol policies occur during what step of an event management plan (number does not count)
Staging the event
Granted to the Power 4 conferences which provided the leagues with greater control over rule-making, postseason events, and governance.
autonomy
Two US professional leagues which do not permit their member teams to negotiate local TV contracts for regular season games
NFL & MLS
Lambeau Field
Single purpose facility
Civil wrong or injury for which the law permits a recovery
Tort Law
Ensures predictability and consistency in judicial decisions
Precedent
Ticket sales, NCAA/Conference Distributions, TV/Radio, Donations, Institutional support/student fees
Main sources of revenue
Prohibit companies from dominating their respective markets in interstate commercial activity. (MLB has received exemption)
Sherman Antitrust Act
reserved ticket
Three Tenets of Contract Law
Offer
Acceptance
Consideration
Crowd Management Plan
An economic term for when an athletics department's total operating revenues exceed its total operating expenses within a specific fiscal year.
Surplus
A process used to negotiate work terms between labor and management.
Collective bargaining
Skateboard park
Nontraditional Facility
Plaintiff must prove which four things to determine negligence
Duty
Breach of Duty
Proximate Cause
Injury
Trevor Bauer lawsuit against The Athletic after they published a story which he claimed contained a false narrative about him
Defamation
1994 US federal law which requires colleges and universities that receive federal funding to publicly report spending patterns of athletics departments
Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act
Agreements collectively bargained between labor and management that establish a league-wide team payroll threshold that cannot be exceeded in most-cases.
Salary caps
Three typical management positions within Facility & Event Operations
facility director
operations manager
event coordinator
Which three federal laws did we discuss in class that affect sport
ADA
Title IX
FTC Guidelines on Endorsements
Four types of intentional torts discussed in class
invasion of privacy, defamation, assault, and battery
The increase in fame of a university caused by a successful sports team.
Maintaining labor-management relations, managing new technology, & dealing with globalization
Future challenges facing professional sport
6 steps of event management plans
scheduling, negotiating, coordinating, staging, cleaning up, evaluating