Michael Jordan, Chicago’s greatest basketball player, and two of the region’s iconic grocery brands appear to have settled a legal fight over the allegedly unauthorized use of imagery connected to the basketball legend in advertisements designed to honor Jordan’s induction into the basketball Hall of Fame six years ago.
The United States Soccer Federation must seek approval from its players’ union before allowing sponsors to use players’ likenesses in advertisements, after a federal judge upheld the decision of an arbitrator. U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Kendall ruled Sept. 29 in Chicago to grant the United States National Soccer Team Players Association’s motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit the Chicago-based U.S. Soccer Federation brought against the players association.
The questions of whether and how much a music streaming service will need to pay for sending a text message to one of its subscribers must be decided in arbitration, a federal judge has ruled. Plaintiff Megan Craddock filed a putative class action lawsuit against Beats Music LLC, claiming the company violated the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act when it sent her a text message informing her of special offers on the company’s website.
