A Review of the Dismissal of the Levy vs. WWE Lawsuit

In a closely-watched case, a federal district court last week threw out claims by three wrestlers that they were employees, rather than independent contractors of the World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) in a thorough repudiation of their claims.

The decision in Levy v. WWE is based, in part on the language of the wrestlers' contracts. If there were any doubt that the WWE is entertainment, not a sport, the court readily dismisses that at the outset:

Though wrestling is a sport in which two combatants engage in efforts to throw each other, as presented by defendant it is not a competitive engagement but is a staged pseudo-match, scripted, choreographed by agents of defendant and executed by wrestlers assigned by defendant which directs and controls the wrestlers’ conduct and the outcome.

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source: ctemploymentlawblog.com