{"id":4795,"date":"2025-03-19T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/parties-spar-over-expedited-discovery-in-suit-against-ailing-nhl-agent\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:26:07","slug":"parties-spar-over-expedited-discovery-in-suit-against-ailing-nhl-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/parties-spar-over-expedited-discovery-in-suit-against-ailing-nhl-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Parties Spar Over Expedited Discovery in Suit Against Ailing NHL Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A federal judge said he won&#8217;t decide on a Finnish sports agency&#8217;s attempt to speed up the case until a hearing next month in the group&#8217;s legal pursuit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2024\/10\/17\/nhl-agent-business-cant-sell-assets-to-dodge-1m-in-judgments-federal-judge-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">collect more than $1 million<\/a> allegedly owed by a National Hockey League Players Association agent who claims he only &#8220;has months to live&#8221; in a battle against terminal cancer. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>On Monday, U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton for the District of Massachusetts <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/79\/fe\/5f34c63e43c7b0dd8bf10405c354\/b33fd72d-2373-43cd-8793-8242fe446311.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">agreed to promptly schedule a pretrial conference for April 22<\/a> at the request of the plaintiff Professional Sports Services FI OY. The plaintiff, which manages professional ice hockey players in Finland, claims agent Jay Grossman has sought to delay the litigation by seeking extensions to file a motion to dismiss based on arguments the court already rejected. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge said he won&#8217;t decide on a Finnish sports agency&#8217;s attempt to speed up the case until a hearing next month in the group&#8217;s legal pursuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5071,5155,2569,5154,5156,4990,5153,339],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-agent","tag-ailing","tag-discovery","tag-expedited","tag-nhl","tag-parties","tag-spar","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}