May 24, 2019
The $45 million attorney fee bid from the legal team whose March victory barred the NCAA from restricting student athletes' education-related compensation is unreasonable because it seeks pay for "excessive, redundant, and unnecessary" hours worked, the NCAA said in California federal court Friday.
April 24, 2019
Student athletes are pushing back against the NCAA's efforts to snuff out a remaining U.S. district court case over limits on their compensation after the organization lost a multidistrict antitrust litigation in California federal court, saying the case can be litigated after appeals in the MDL run their course.
April 22, 2019
The NCAA is fighting a push for almost $45 million in attorney fees by the legal team that scored a March antitrust victory against the organization in California federal court on behalf of student athletes, saying the players' lawyers won't disclose their billing records.
April 10, 2019
The National Collegiate Athletic Association on Tuesday asked a California federal court to dismiss a pending suit that alleges the league's rules over athlete compensation violate federal antitrust laws, saying the case covers the same ground as a consolidated suit that was decided last month.
April 08, 2019
Student-athletes who persuaded a court to rule that some of the NCAA's restrictions on player compensation violate antitrust laws plan to file a cross-appeal seeking a broader ruling that doesn't tie pay to education-related expenses alone.
March 27, 2019
A class of NCAA student-athletes that convinced a California federal judge to lift some restrictions on what the colleges can pay their players asked the court for $44.9 million in attorney fees on Tuesday, pointing to thousands of hours of work their lawyers poured into the case.
March 25, 2019
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is appealing a California federal judge's decision that opened the door for student athletes to earn more than what NCAA rules now allow, saying the courts should stop trying to "micromanage" its policies.
March 20, 2019
A California federal judge has denied the NCAA's bid to strike portions of student-athletes' closing argument in multidistrict litigation over whether they can get paid to play, saying the facts the class cited in the closing are admissible.
March 12, 2019
College athletes seeking to upend an NCAA system that prevents them from being paid won some ground in a California federal court ruling Friday but fell well short of a slam dunk as courts continue to be reluctant to professionalize the $1 billion college sports industry.
March 08, 2019
A California federal judge on Friday barred the NCAA from restricting student athletes' education-related compensation, finding that some of its decades-old rules violate antitrust laws, while also holding the organization can continue to restrict pay unrelated to education.