October 02, 2017
The Ninth Circuit's September 2015 O'Bannon decision precludes players' claims in multidistrict litigation against the NCAA and nearly a dozen athletic conferences over allegedly anti-competitive caps on scholarships, the association argued in California federal court Friday, urging the court to grant its summary judgment motion over the players'.
September 07, 2017
Student-athletes in a lawsuit against the NCAA and 11 athletic conferences over allegedly anti-competitive caps on scholarships asked a California federal judge Wednesday to approve nearly $45 million in attorneys' fees, expenses and costs for class counsel stemming from a $209 million settlement reached in March.
August 14, 2017
College football and basketball players challenging the NCAA's rules against players' being compensated beyond school attendance costs laid out their case Friday to a California federal judge, ripping the NCAA's dedication to "amateurism" in college athletics as an invalid defense to the anti-competitive limits on compensation.
August 10, 2017
Long-running litigation against the NCAA over rules prohibiting college football and basketball players from receiving compensation beyond scholarships is raising questions about whether it makes sense to use antitrust law as a means to reform college athletics, attorneys said at an American Bar Association conference Thursday.
March 21, 2017
The NCAA and 11 athletic conferences sued by student-athletes in antitrust suits over caps on scholarships on Tuesday won preliminary approval for a nearly $209 million deal on monetary claims after tacking on revisions that excluded claims in certain other athletes' suits and modified class definitions.
March 06, 2017
A former University of Southern California linebacker told a California federal court Thursday that the NCAA and college athletes, which reached a $208.7 million settlement to end certain antitrust claims contesting scholarship caps, have "no business" settling other potential labor law claims, arguing they should follow his proposal to add an express carve-out in the settlement agreement.
February 24, 2017
A California magistrate judge has denied student-athletes' request for the PAC-12 conference's documents on eSports competition between its member schools, finding that the documents are tangential to the fight over the NCAA's caps on athlete scholarships.
February 15, 2017
A former University of Southern California linebacker objected Tuesday to a proposed $208.7 million deal to settle monetary claims in the antitrust suits contesting the NCAA's caps on athlete scholarships, arguing in California federal court that the settlement releases state labor law claims that weren't even covered in the litigation.
February 06, 2017
The NCAA and 11 conferences sued by student-athletes in antitrust suits contesting caps on scholarships have reached a $208.7 million deal to settle monetary claims in the multidistrict litigation, according to documents filed Friday in a California federal court.
December 08, 2016
The Mid-American Conference, a Division I college athletics conference, is seeking to limit the scope of deposition testimony over its finances sought in one of the main cases in the multidistrict grant-in-aid NCAA antitrust litigation over student-athlete compensation, according to court documents filed Wednesday.