“For as long as we’ve had lawsuits involving sports, there have been questions about the impartiality of the judges making decisions,” said Gabe Feldman, director of the Tulane sports law program. USA Today Brendan Sorsby’s lawyers made their case ...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday concluded that a mostly undisclosed decades-long friendship between a U.S. magistrate judge and a lawyer warranted wiping out an almost $125 million judgment the judge had issued against a Louisiana industrial port.