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On April 25, U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi ordered the NCAA not to enforce its Five-Year Rule against Rutgers University cornerback Jett Elad. The impact of name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements on the new world...more
Competition is the essence of sports. It fuels the players and the thrill of it entices fans to cheer for their favorite players, purchase memorabilia, and watch games. Outside of the games, however, players and coaches are...more
Rutgers University football player Jett Elad is one of the latest student-athletes to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the U.S. District Court for the District of...more
On January 31, the attorney general (AG) for the state of Tennessee and the attorney general for the Commonwealth of Virginia announced that they had reached an agreement in principle with the National Collegiate Athletics...more
It’s bowl season, but that won’t stop Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia from celebrating his own personal victories. On December 18, 2024, Judge William L. Campbell entered an Order granting Pavia’s Motion for Preliminary...more
The NCAA and five athletic conferences approved paying nearly $2.8 billion in retrospective name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation to settle three pending antitrust lawsuits. The proposed settlement contemplates a...more
“The wild west” is by far the most frequent characterization used to describe college sports since NCAA v Alston, 141 S. Ct. 2141, paved the way for college athletes to be compensated for use of their Name, Image, and...more
On January 31, Tennessee Attorney General (AG) Jonathan Skrmetti, joined by Virginia AG Jason Miyares, filed suit against the NCAA in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee for alleged violations of the...more
An important development in the fast-changing landscape of intercollegiate athletics’ name, image, and likeness (NIL) rules may occur, when NCAA v. Alston is heard by the United States Supreme Court in March, with the Court’s...more
In late March, a district court in the Northern District of California partially granted and partially denied dueling summary judgment motions in an MDL class action—In re NCAA Athletic Grant-In-Aid Cap Antitrust...more
In a class action brought under the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the NCAA eligibility regulations are subject to antitrust scrutiny. Applying the so-called Rule of Reason, the court held...more
On November 21, 2014, professors of antitrust law from 15 universities filed an amicus brief in support of the NCAA’s appeal in O’Bannon v. NCAA. (This blog has previously covered the O’Bannon case; the most recent entry...more
Nearly five years into the lawsuit, a District Court denied defendant NCAA’s summary judgment motion, and ordered that the antitrust claims of current and former student-athletes denied compensation for the commercial use of...more