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U.S. Soccer's Court Filing Includes Personal Information On Prominent USWNT Members

The discovery that U.S. Soccer's court filing in the organization's lawsuit against the USWNT union "included detailed personal information" about many USWNT members, including the "home addresses of more than two dozen players and the personal email accounts of some of the team’s most prominent players," according to Borden & Das of the N.Y. TIMES. USWNT MF Megan Rapinoe said, "The players are very, very upset. We feel disrespected. We feel that our personal information, our privacy and our safety was handled frivolously and with real negligence. I doubt it was purposeful, but it's an egregious error, and one that's unacceptable." Borden & Das note among the documents "filed with the suit was a list of 28 national team players and their home addresses." The documents also "contained email exchanges that disclosed the personal email addresses of some" players. U.S. Soccer deemed the disclosure a "clerical mistake," and by Thursday, a redacted version with the players' personal details removed had "replaced the original on the court's website." USWNT Players Association Exec Dir & General Counsel Rich Nichols said that he had "emailed U.S. Soccer on Thursday morning demanding that it address the disclosure of the players’ personal information" (N.Y. TIMES, 2/5).

STARING CONTEST: USA TODAY's Martin Rogers writes despite the outcome of the lawsuit, it is "hard to see an end to the acrimonious stalemate between" the USWNT union and U.S. Soccer. It is clear that U.S. Soccer's legal team on Thursday "acted with ineptitude rather than malice, and reacted swiftly to remove the private details." Regardless, the incident did "nothing to soothe the increasingly fraught scenario between the two camps." Whatever shots are "fired in legal combat," U.S. Soccer is "unlikely to generate a shred of sympathy ... in the court of public opinion at least." The organization is "seen as the big, bad wolf, up against a group of players who make salaries dwarfed by their male counterparts." The women's team has "faced a long struggle for better treatment" and increasingly has shown it is "prepared to take strong action" (USA TODAY, 2/5).

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