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A settlement being discussed in an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA and major college conferences could cost billions and pave the way for a compensation model for college athletes.. An ...
College athletes whose efforts primarily benefit their schools may qualify as employees deserving of pay under federal wage-and-hour laws, a U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday in a setback to the NCAA.
In this case, the Court struck down any potential limitations on education-related benefits that student-athletes may receive. [2] Most notably, the Court – and especially Justice Brett Kavanaugh – rejected the NCAA's "amateurism" argument as an overly broad and outdated defense for failing to allow its revenue-drivers (i.e., student ...
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued its first formal guidance toward name, image and likeness rights in college athletics on Thursday, requiring schools to ...
Judge Wilken, also hearing this case, issued her decision in March 2019, ruling against the NCAA that their restrictions on "non-cash education-related benefits" violated antitrust law under the Sherman Antitrust Act and required the NCAA to allow for certain types of academic benefits beyond the previously-established full scholarships from O ...
Title IX is an increasingly important issue in college sports law. [2] The act, passed in 1972, makes it illegal for a federally funded institution to discriminate on the basis of sex or gender. In sports law, the piece of legislation often refers to the effort to achieve equality for women's sports in colleges.
“There’s no one to put the brakes on them,” says Joel Maxcy, a Drexel University economist who studies college sports. “There’s no one to say, ‘No, this is not a sound investment.’” A Hail Mary. Georgia State, a commuter college located in a largely vacant stretch of downtown Atlanta, had long resisted a move into big-time ...
It was another blow to the NCAA's ability to govern college sports and more than 500,000 athletes. Gabe Feldman, a sports law professor at Tulane, said an act of Congress might save the NCAA even ...