wptider
| Favorite team: | Alabama  |
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re: Easy fix for the longevity of college football
Posted by wptider on 1/17/24 at 12:54 pm
There is no fix without some type of intervention by Congress, which is not going to happen anytime soon.
The idea that athletes will become employees and negotiate collective bargaining agreements like pro teams seems pretty far fetched.
First, do you really think Universities that are already strapped for case are going to agree to take on the long term burden of paying several hundred athletes? Does an athletes time as an "employee" count for calculating state retirement benefits? How do the various State laws dealing with government employment and government contracting apply to athlete "employment"?
Also, how does title IX play in this space? Does the university have to pay the bullpen catcher on the softball team the same as the starting QB? Are there different unions for every sport or does one union represent both the swim team and the football team?
The idea that athletes will become employees and negotiate collective bargaining agreements like pro teams seems pretty far fetched.
First, do you really think Universities that are already strapped for case are going to agree to take on the long term burden of paying several hundred athletes? Does an athletes time as an "employee" count for calculating state retirement benefits? How do the various State laws dealing with government employment and government contracting apply to athlete "employment"?
Also, how does title IX play in this space? Does the university have to pay the bullpen catcher on the softball team the same as the starting QB? Are there different unions for every sport or does one union represent both the swim team and the football team?
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re: Dylan Moses may be reconsidering returning
Posted by wptider on 1/2/20 at 2:40 pm
"The pleadings speak for themselves. To begin with, the Atakapa’s counsel, Edward Moses, Jr.—who appears to be the real plaintiff—refers to himself throughout under such titles as: “His Majesty,” “[T]he Christian King de Orleans,” “[T]he God of the Earth Realm,” and the “Trust Protector of the American Indian Tribe of ? ???? Moses” (bold and Hebrew script in original).
The plaintiff’s claims are no less bizarre. For instance, the original complaint alleges, without any explanation, that the Atakapa are being held
in “pupilage” by the United States and as “wards” of Louisiana. The first amended complaint seeks a “declaration of rights guaranteed . . . by the 1795 Spanish Treaty with the Catholic Majesty of Spain and the 1800 French Treaty with the former Christian Majesty of France.” The proposed second amended complaint attempts to name these additional defendants: Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, King Felipe VI of Spain, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom, Pope Francis, President Xi Jinping of China, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of Libya, President George Weah of Liberia, Prime Minister Antonio Costa of Portugal, and President Donald J. Trump. That same document also alleges that the United States and Louisiana seek to monopolize “intergalactic foreign trade.” This was no typographical error: the plaintiff continues to argue on appeal that the defendants are attempting to “monopoliz[e] . . . domestic, international and intergalactic commercial markets.”
We will not try to decipher what any of this means. ..."
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The plaintiff’s claims are no less bizarre. For instance, the original complaint alleges, without any explanation, that the Atakapa are being held
in “pupilage” by the United States and as “wards” of Louisiana. The first amended complaint seeks a “declaration of rights guaranteed . . . by the 1795 Spanish Treaty with the Catholic Majesty of Spain and the 1800 French Treaty with the former Christian Majesty of France.” The proposed second amended complaint attempts to name these additional defendants: Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, King Felipe VI of Spain, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom, Pope Francis, President Xi Jinping of China, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of Libya, President George Weah of Liberia, Prime Minister Antonio Costa of Portugal, and President Donald J. Trump. That same document also alleges that the United States and Louisiana seek to monopolize “intergalactic foreign trade.” This was no typographical error: the plaintiff continues to argue on appeal that the defendants are attempting to “monopoliz[e] . . . domestic, international and intergalactic commercial markets.”
We will not try to decipher what any of this means. ..."
5th Circuit CA
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