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Major League Baseball's longstanding antitrust exemption is in serious jeopardy if the league doesn't settle San Jose's lawsuit aimed at acquiring the Oakland A's.

• ESPN legal analyst Lester Munson tells Greeny and Golic about Broward County Circuit Judge Kathleen McHugh's decision to sentence Chad Johnson to 30 days in jail for a probation violation. Munson thinks that McHugh overreacted. Munson -Foot...

Memo to Judge Kathleen McHugh in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: Lighten up. It was a slap on the fanny. That's all it was. It came from a guy, Chad Johnson, who did not argue against a charge that he head-butted his wife in an argument. You, as the judge pre...

The agreement between Major League Baseball and Tony Bosch, the founder of the defunct Miami clinic at the center of an ongoing performance-enhancing drug scandal, might lead to player suspensions, appeals and litigation. The agreement, first reporte...

ESPN.com senior writer and legal analyst Lester Munson weighs in on the Paterno family lawsuit versus the NCAA that was filed on Thursday: "There is nothing subtle or nuanced about the lawsuit. It is nothing less than a frontal assault on everything...

Senior writer and legal analyst Lester Munson takes a look at the most recent lawsuit filed against the NCAA and writes that, although the suit is impressive, it appears to miss the mark. Among the questions Munson raises is why complaints from Jo...

When Penn State president Rodney Erickson signed the agreement with the NCAA in July that imposed severe punishments on the university for its role in the Jerry Sandusky scandal, one of the goals of the agreement was to "change the culture that allow...

PGA golfer Vijay Singh will find it difficult to prove to a court and a jury that the PGA Tour's blunders somehow harmed him and should result in an award of money damages.

A lawsuit filed against the NHL by Derek Boogaard's family offers a look at the fastest-growing addiction in the U.S. and at one of the nation's leading cause of accidental deaths.

O.J. Simpson apparently has decided he'll try to get out of prison by blaming his former attorney for putting him there instead of blaming the concussions he suffered when he played football. Simpson will walk into a Las Vegas courtroom Monday and tr...

Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, the subject of what the FBI calls "rebate fraud" in the sale of diesel fuel at his 650 Pilot Flying J truck stops, has reached out directly to at least one of his customers and pledged to make things right.

A blog reader, Michael from Phoenix, asked: With the FBI raiding Pilot Flying J's headquarters, what are the chances that Jimmy Haslam won't be the Browns owner in the near future? That question was posed to ESPN.com legal analyst Lester Munson, w...

As the NFL's battery of lawyers walked into a federal court in Philadelphia on Tuesday morning, there were five words they did not want to hear: "Kline v. Security Guards Inc."

Eric Murdock says he was fired as a Rutgers University basketball staff member because he blew the whistle on the coaching abuses of Mike Rice, and he has filed a lawsuit demanding monetary damages. In the days since "Outside the Lines" interviewed M...

Lance Armstrong's decision to tell the truth about his doping exposed him to two major problems -- the risk of a $90 million debt and the renewed possibility of a criminal charge and time in the penitentiary.

The rape case of a former Montana quarterback is complex but also central to an ongoing scandal that has some residents believing no athlete can get a fair trial and others believing women routinely have been discriminated against.