Varsity Cheerleading, Bain Agree to $82.5 Million Antitrust Settlement
Bain Capital, its cheerleading company Varsity Brands and Varsity’s previous owners have agreed to pay $82.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf…
Bain Capital, its cheerleading company Varsity Brands and Varsity’s previous owners have agreed to pay $82.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought on behalf…
Bain Capital and Varsity Spirit continue to clear their deck of litigation as the private equity giant reportedly considers offloading its profitable but controversial…
Varsity Brands’ insurance company is now accusing it of breach of contract in the wake of over a dozen sex abuse lawsuits filed in the last two years against the…
Varsity Brands’ insurance company has asked a federal judge to correct what it says was a “mistakenly truncated” policy that could end up costing it millions in light of…
A federal court judge ruled Tuesday that a dozen former youth cheerleaders who filed lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by their coaches at a South Carolina gym can pursue…
Varsity Brands has agreed to pay $43.5 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought on behalf of a class of all-star cheerleading gyms, according to a copy of the…
The once-imposing pyramid of antitrust litigation against cheerleading juggernaut Varsity is quickly tumbling down. On Tuesday, a federal judge dismissed a…
A high-profile lawsuit filed in 2020 by two underage cheerleaders who were sexually harassed and abused by Jerry Harris, who was featured in the Netflix show Cheer…
Varsity Brands, the Bain Capital-owned cheerleading company, has agreed to settle one of the three federal antitrust lawsuits that have been filed against it. On…
USA Cheer, the embattled governing body backed by Bain Capital’s Varsity Spirit—each of which are co-defendants in 12 federal sex abuse lawsuits and antitrust…
The cheerleading establishment and its corporate captain have arrived at their most precarious, yet ambitious, juncture. On the one hand, the competitive cheer…
In light of multiple lawsuits blaming Varsity Brands for a sex-abuse scandal within competitive cheerleading, the Bain Capital-owned company has now retained prominent…