Fantasy Sports Arbitration: SportsJudge.com Decisions of Note (Sept. 1 - 8, 2007)

Week One of the NFL season (not to mention week 21 of the baseball season) brought an interesting docket of cases to SportsJudge.com. As I will do each Monday, here are a few of our highlights:

(1) In the case Stampeding Walruses v. Enter Sandman, Index No. 542, the Court of Fantasy Baseball ruled that based on league precedent, an accidentally dropped player should be awarded back to his original owner. This opinion resolved a dispute in a Maryland-based league. It was reported about by Liz Farmer in the the legal section of Sept. 10th Maryland Daily Record.

(2) In the case Dr. A. Rhim v. Westminster Football League, Index No. 735, the Court of Fantasy Football ruled that where a Yahoo! search engine unexpectedly crashed in the middle of a draft, the league commissioner must re-input the names of the players selected prior to the crash, and that the commissioner may not require an absolute re-draft. This opinion resolved a dispute in a Georgia-based league composed of friends from the Westminster Class of '95.

(3) In the case E. Fenster v. Pick-ems Pool, Index No. 761, the Court of Fantasy Football ruled that where a Pick-ems competition requires that "all picks for an entire week must be submitted before the start of the first game of that week -- no exceptions," no exceptions may be made for an owner that submitted her weekly picks after the Thursday night game had begun. This opinion resolved a dispute in a New York-based work contest.

(4) In the case P.Perotti v. Team One and Team Two, Index No. 686(T), the Court of Fantasy Football upheld a six-to-four trade that featured T.J. Houshmandzadeh moving from Team One to Team Two. This opinion was based on a dispute in a California football league.

(5) In the case P. Ochoa v. Football League, Index No. 604(T), the Court of Fantasy Football upheld the trade of Matt Hasselbeck and Thomas Jones for Donovan McNabb and Vincent Jackson. This opinion was also based on a dispute in a California football league.

Full copies of certain of these decisions are available with purchase of the SportsJudge newsletter. Courtesy copies are available to interested members of the media.

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