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ESTERO, Fla. (AP) — Daniel Batcho's 19 points helped Louisiana Tech defeat Eastern Kentucky 78-69 on Wednesday. Batcho added eight rebounds for the Bulldogs (7-0). Amaree Abram added 14 points while going 5 of 11 from the floor, including 1 for 3 from 3-point range, and 3 for 3 from the line and also had eight rebounds. Al Green had 12 points and shot 4 of 9 from the field, including 1 for 5 from 3-point range, and went 3 for 4 from the line. The Bulldogs extended their winning streak to seven games. George Kimble III finished with 21 points for the Colonels (4-3). Devontae Blanton added 17 points and five assists for Eastern Kentucky. Jordan Crawford also had nine points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .A resolution will not come until at least next school year in a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender girls’ participation on girls’ sports teams, a federal court judge ruled during a court conference on Thursday. Lawyers for the two transgender girls who serve as plaintiffs in the case argued that school districts “want clarity” before next school year on the constitutionality of the law, which went into effect in August. They proposed a trial date in July 2025. Lawyers for the state, however, requested a date in February 2026, arguing that the plaintiffs’ proposed timeline would not give them enough time to conduct pretrial discovery in the case, which will likely involve multiple expert witnesses. New Hampshire federal court Magistrate Judge Talesha Saint-Marc decided Thursday that the two sides should come to a compromise, but acknowledged that a trial prior to September 2025 was unrealistic. “I think that a schedule that tries to get this case tried by the beginning of next school year is just too ambitious for this case,” Judge Saint-Marc said. That trial date will not affect whether the two plaintiffs in the case, Parker Tirrell of Plymouth and Iris Turmelle of Pembroke, can continue participating on girls’ sports teams at their high school. A preliminary injunction granted in September allows them to do so indefinitely. But it will delay any resolution in the judicial challenge of the law, which bans transgender girls in grades five through 12 from playing on girls’ sports teams in NHIAA-sanctioned sports. Three students in New Hampshire — Tirrell, Turmelle, and a soccer and track and field athlete at Kearsarge Regional High School — have been publicly identified as transgender girls who wish to play on girls’ sports teams. The Kearsarge district allowed their student to continue playing on her teams even though she did not file a lawsuit. Chris Erchull, the lead lawyer for the teens, said following Thursday’s court conference that the lack of other students in legal limbo doesn’t negate school districts’ urgency to have more clarity on the law. “There’s a lot of confusion right now in the school districts,” Erchull said. “... School boards are in a difficult position for sure: Do we comply with this state law that conflicts with federal law or not?” Erchull also said Tirrell, a sophomore soccer player at Plymouth Regional High School, and Turmelle, a freshman at Pembroke Academy who had indicated in court filings she intended to join the track team, would also “like resolution of this matter for their own sake.” New Hampshire Attorney General’s office attorney Michael DeGrandis declined to comment following the court conference. In court, he said that his defense team was just beginning to engage expert witnesses and had yet to retain any so far. He characterized a schedule proposed by plaintiffs that would have the two sides disclose their expert witnesses on the same date as “unrealistic and fundamentally unfair.” Referring to the bill that passed last spring, DeGrandis also argued that plaintiffs’ decision late last month to ask for a broader ruling, rather than one that just applied to the two plaintiffs, expanded the pre-trial work necessary. “Now they’re saying that HB1205 under no set of circumstances can prohibit a biological boy from playing on a girls’ sports team. That is a mammoth difference,” he said.
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By Tom Hals and Jonathan Stempel WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -A Delaware judge ruled on Monday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk still is not entitled to receive a $56 billion compensation package despite shareholders of the electric vehicle company voting to reinstate it. The ruling by the judge, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Court of Chancery, follows her January decision that called the pay package excessive and rescinded it, surprising investors, and cast uncertainty over Musk's future at the world's most valuable carmaker. Musk did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Tesla has said in court filings that the judge should recognize a subsequent June vote by its shareholders in favor of the pay package for Musk, the company's driving force who is responsible for many of its advances, and reinstate his compensation. McCormick said Tesla’s board was not entitled to hit “reset” to restore Musk’s pay package. “Were the court to condone the practice of allowing defeated parties to create new facts for the purpose of revising judgments, lawsuits would become interminable,” she said in her 101-page opinion. She also said Tesla made multiple material misstatements in its proxy statement regarding the vote, and could not claim the vote was a “cure-all” to justify restoring Musk’s pay. “Taken together,” the problems with Tesla’s arguments “pack a powerful punch,” she wrote. Tesla shares fell 1.4% in after hours trade, after the ruling. McCormick also ordered Tesla to pay the attorneys who brought the case $345 million, well short of the $6 billion they initially requested. She said the fee could be paid in cash or Tesla stock. “We are pleased with Chancellor McCormick’s ruling, which declined Tesla’s invitation to inject continued uncertainty into Court proceedings," said a statement from Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, one of the three law firms for the plaintiff. The law firm also said it looked forward to defending the court's opinion if Musk and Tesla appealed. Musk and Tesla can appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court as soon as McCormick enters a final order, which could come as soon as this week. The appeal could take a year to play out. After the January ruling, Tesla shareholders flooded the court with thousands of letters arguing that rescinding Musk's pay increased the possibility he would leave Tesla or develop some products like artificial intelligence at ventures other than Tesla. Attorneys for shareholder Richard Tornetta, who sued in 2018 to challenge Musk's compensation package, had argued that Delaware law does not permit a company to use a ratification vote to essentially overturn the ruling from a trial. McCormick in January found that Musk improperly controlled the 2018 board process to negotiate the pay package. The board had said that Musk deserved the package because he hit all the ambitious targets on market value, revenue and profitability. But the judge criticized Tesla's board as "beholden" to Musk, saying the compensation plan was proposed by a board whose members had conflicts of interest due to close personal and financial ties to him. After the January ruling, Musk criticized the judge on his social media platform X and encouraged other companies to follow the lead of Tesla and reincorporate in Texas from Delaware, although it is unclear if any companies did so. The judge in her January ruling called the pay package the "biggest compensation plan ever - an unfathomable sum." It was 33 times larger than the next biggest executive compensation package, which was Musk's 2012 pay plan. As of Monday, the pay package was worth $101.4 billion, according to Equilar, a compensation consulting firm. Musk's 2018 pay package gave him stock grants worth around 1% of Tesla's equity each time the company achieved one of 12 tranches of escalating operational and financial goals. Musk did not receive any guaranteed salary. Tornetta argued that shareholders were not told how easily the goals would be achieved when they voted on the package. (Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
FARGO — When Steve D. Scheel received the North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, he couldn’t help but thank the leaders and staff at Scheels. “If there was ever a Team Rough Rider Award, this would be it,” he said Tuesday, Nov. 26, at the Fargo store. ADVERTISEMENT The former Scheels board chairman, president and CEO became the 50th recipient of North Dakota’s highest citizen honor. Employees looked on from the second floor of the sporting goods retailer’s headquarters as state officials unveiled a portrait of Scheel. “Part of the joy that Theodore Roosevelt had was that he had found purpose in seeking new frontiers,” North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said. “Today, we’re celebrating another legendary North Dakota who found his frontier. Some might say that he found it in sporting goods. He might have found it in retail, but I think you know from the presentations this morning that the joy of his frontier was creating others and inspiring others to lead and creating opportunities for others.” Scheel became Scheels president, CEO and chairman in 1989. He is credited with taking the Scheels brand from a home and hardware store to a sporting goods chain. Scheel said he wanted to make his company not just about selling sporting goods. He wanted to create a customer experience for families. He added a number of attractions, including Ferris wheels in 16 stores and Fuzziwig’s Candy Factory in 19 stores. “Steve had the vision,” Scheels CEO Matt Hanson said. “Vision is part of Steve’s legacy.” Scheel said it took him too long to understand the value of entertainment and attractions in retail. He mentioned studying other stores such as Cabela’s and Toys R Us. He said he got strange looks as he brought the ideas up at board meetings, but the changes paid off. Over his 35 years as the Scheels leader, Scheel helped expand his company to 13,000 associates at 34 stores. Scheels went from having a presence in three to 16 states. ADVERTISEMENT Scheel also focused his time on “the culture of leadership,” Hanson said. In 2001, Scheel changed the title of manager to leaders, and he dubbed himself “head cheerleader.” Scheel is known for his philanthropy, from donating money for large sports complexes like the Scheels Arena in Fargo to creating a program for employees to donate $500 to a person in need. “It’s easy to look around Fargo-Moorhead and see all the good Steve has done,” Hanson said. “What you won’t see is all the other things he’s done anonymously. But even more important is how Steve has developed a culture of giving back in our 34 stores.” In an emotional moment, Burgum recalled going to Scheels as a child and dreaming about buying a Schwinn bicycle. He said he saved enough money for the purchase by working on his family farm and local grain elevator. “I remember the day I bought that bike,” Burgum said. “Take yourself back to the first time you walked into a Scheels store and had a dream about, if you worked hard, that you might be able to do something.” Scheel said he has been surrounded by talented people, and he is proud of his staff. “Mine hasn’t been a job, hasn’t been a career,” he said. “It’s been a love affair, a love affair with the retail business and our people at Scheels for over five decades” ADVERTISEMENTLawmakers call for progress on marijuana law before end of Biden administration