August 15, 2014
The National Collegiate Athletic Association agreed Thursday with a group of student athletes that a court order banning the NCAA's athlete compensation rule in an antitrust case shouldn't kick in until 2015 when it will cover current and incoming students.
August 13, 2014
A group of student athletes urged a California federal judge on Tuesday to clarify that when a court order banning the National Collegiate Athletic Association's rule on athlete compensation kicks in next year, the changes will apply to both current and incoming students.
August 11, 2014
The National Collegiate Athletic Association on Monday asked a California federal judge to clarify when a new rule allowing players to collect a small portion of the profits universities reap from the use of their images would kick in, saying its application to the 2015 recruiting class is “ambiguous.”
August 11, 2014
Michael Hausfeld, who won the ruling that the NCAA's amateurism rules violate federal antitrust law, told Law360 in an interview Monday that the decision is "a game changer" that clearly disposes of some of the association's longest-held justifications for the no-pay rules — or "fictions," as he put it.
August 08, 2014
A California federal judge ruled Friday that the National Collegiate Athletic Association's rules preventing college athletes from being paid for the use of their names, images and likenesses violate antitrust laws, and barred the NCAA from continuing to impose those rules.
July 24, 2014
A California federal judge indicated on Thursday that she will preliminarily approve $60 million in settlements in college athletes' cases accusing the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Electronic Arts Inc. of improperly using their likenesses in video games, but sidelined the NCAA's effort to include antitrust claims in the release.
July 03, 2014
A California federal judge considering class settlements for Electronic Arts Inc. to pay $40 million and the NCAA to pay $20 million to college athletes who say their likenesses were used in video games without permission asked the parties to revamp their proposed class notices at a hearing Thursday.
June 27, 2014
As the class-action trial between college athletes and the National Collegiate Athletic Association wrapped up Friday, the California federal judge overseeing the bench trial asked the parties fundamental questions about the athletes' antitrust theory and the purported harm caused by the NCAA's ban on paying athletes for licensing their personas.
June 26, 2014
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's pact with member conferences not to pay student athletes to license their likenesses isn't a cartel — it's a joint venture that creates benefits for NCAA teams and fans, the association's antitrust expert testified Thursday in student athletes' class-action antitrust trial.
June 24, 2014
Student athletes may be too young to understand the consequences of being paid to license their personas, the head of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Southeastern Conference testified Tuesday in the athletes' class action trial alleging the NCAA's pay ban violates antitrust laws.