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ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the number of home runs by San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds continues to rise, so does the number of legal questions surrounding his historic home run hit. Some of the questions include:
-- Who owns the home run ball? The line-up card? -- Should steroid users be banned from the record books? The Hall of Fame? -- Could the owner of Bonds' home run ball face a large tax bill?
Professor Paul Finkelman, considered one of the world's leading experts on baseball and the law, is available as an expert resource.
In 2001, Professor Finkelman was an expert witness in the suit over who owned Barry Bonds' 73rd home run ball. A professor at Albany Law School in Albany, N.Y., and a former fellow at Harvard Law School, Finkelman teaches and lectures about baseball law around the country. He has also written and researched extensively all legal aspects surrounding the sport, from contracts to steroid use. Recent papers included, "Baseball and the Rule of Law" and "Who Owns the Home Run Ball."
If interested in interviewing Professor Paul Finkelman, please contact Nicole Soucy at (518) 445-3208 or nsouc@albanylaw.edu.
About Albany Law School
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL is a small, independent private school in the heart of New York state's capital since 1851. As the oldest law school in New York state and the oldest independent law school in the nation, the institution offers students an innovative, rigorous curriculum taught by a committed faculty. Several nationally recognized programs -- including the Government Law Center and the Albany Law Clinic and Justice Center -- provide opportunities for students to apply classroom learning. Students have access to New York's highest court, federal courts and the state legislature, as well as a thriving tech-based economy, leading to an employment rate for graduates well above the national average for law schools for the past 25 years. http://www.albanylaw.edu/
Source: Albany Law School
Web site: http://www.albanylaw.edu/
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former White House Drug Policy Spokesman Robert Weiner and Kate Berenato, Lehigh University senior and an avid baseball fan, suggest in an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, "Drug Court for Barry Bonds?" that Bonds should be tried in drug court for his use of illegal drugs, just as any other drug user would be. The over 2000 drug courts in the U.S. today allow for people to be convicted of non-violent drug charges without being sent to jail, rather they are given the help they need in rehab programs. "Mandatory drug treatment would give Bonds a chance to get clean if he is found guilty," say Weiner and Berenato.
They continue, "Allowing for drug users to go unpunished is not the example we should be setting for our children. Parents need to be able to tell their children that what Bonds did was ethically and legally wrong, as well as medically dangerous. Right now, youth see that the best way to get ahead in sports is by taking performance enhancement drugs. Right now, the message is not zero tolerance, but zero punishment. Children need to be aware that steroids and human growth hormones could have harmful and dangerous side effects -- from liver and heart disease to shrunken body parts, hair in wrong places, and -- just ask the family of wrestler Chris Benoit - schizophrenic, murderous rages."
Weiner and Berenato note that federal prosecutors presented Bonds with documents asserting that he had used steroids and human growth hormone during a three-year period. Bonds still publicly says he has not used illegal drugs. "Everybody knew the cream was a drug -- that was the reason they were using it. Likewise, In addition, Bonds already admitted (Associated Press and ESPN reported Jan. 10 and Jan. 11 this year) taking amphetamines, but predictably claimed he didn't know what they were when he got them from a teammate. He did not appeal the positive test result. These are lame excuses."
"Baseball needs to be thinking, not just of ticket sales or the home run record, but of our children's sense of ethics and health. If this were track and field, the flagship Olympic sport, Bonds' admissions would mean two years without his job. Yet baseball is silent and does nothing. In the weeks leading up to the record, as the Giants went from one hostile ballpark to another, Bonds did not receive the level of ovation that Aaron did. Boos were abundant. However, a little less love is not accountability. Drug Court and treatment are," Weiner and Berenato conclude.
Link to Article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/08/ED26RERN91.DTL
Source: Robert Weiner Associates
both of Robert Weiner Associates
(3/7/06). Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, have written a book called Game of Shadows, about baseball superstar Barry bonds and his steroid use. According to the book, set for release March 27, Bonds took performance-enhancing drugs over a period of five seasons because he was jealous of Mark McGwire. The authors gathered their research over two years including court documents, affidavits, memos, grand jury testimony, and interviews.
"The excerpt portrays Bonds as a menacing boor, a tax cheat and an adulterer given to (probably because of the rampant steroid use) sexual dysfunction, hair loss and mild mood swings that included periods of rage" (SportsIllustrated.com).
Resources: SportsIllustrated.com.
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