How can you fine an athlete (by sports courts) money and what would happen if they don’t pay up, how do those courts have more jurisdiction over those people than general courts?
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In the USA (at least) professional athletes have a union, called a players association, which negotiates an agreement, a contract, with the sports league called a Collective Bargaining Agreement, or CBA. If you are in a union at your workplace then you probably have a CBA as well, and the concept is the same.
That CBA sets out a number of aspects of players contracts and how players and teams and the league interact. These are things that you’d think of, such as the minimum salary, maximum contract length, salary cap, and things like that. One of the main aspects of a CBA (for athletes and regular unions) is discipline. So the CBA will set out things like what kind of punishments the league can give out, when they can give them out, how big can they be, and things like that.
If a player is (properly) fined they have to pay because part of their contract is them agreeing to the disciplinary procedures in the CBA. So if the CBA says “you can fine a player up to $5,000 for a flagrant foul” the player has agreed to that when he signed his contract. If there is a dispute about any kind of penalty or fine or how it is applied then the player can usually challenge that penalty or fine in some way that is laid out in the CBA.
TL;DR: Because they agreed to it as part of their contract
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