May 13, 2016
Student-athletes challenging the NCAA's rules capping compensation packages for athletes have told a California federal court that a dispute over requests for financial information on the NCAA's television deals has bogged down the litigation, leading the court on Friday to schedule a conference for the coming week.
March 23, 2016
Student-athletes challenging the NCAA's rules capping compensation packages for athletes have asked a California federal court to certify damages classes, arguing new relaxed rules allowing compensation up to the full cost of attendance provide a measuring stick, according to a court filing Wednesday.
March 15, 2016
NCAA conferences told a California federal judge Monday that they have not been withholding documents in an antitrust suit over rules preventing universities from compensating student-athletes beyond attendance costs, calling the assertions by the class of student-athletes "flatly inaccurate."
March 11, 2016
A class of student-athletes who filed an antitrust suit challenging the NCAA's rules restricting universities from compensating athletes beyond attendance costs asked a California federal court to decide on a pending request to intervene in discovery Thursday, saying several conferences named in the suit have ignored their requests to produce key documents.
February 29, 2016
The Ninth Circuit on Friday denied a request made by the NCAA to appeal a December order granting class certification to a group of college athletes who filed an antitrust suit challenging the NCAA's rules restricting universities from compensating athletes beyond their cost of attendance.
February 11, 2016
Media companies will have a chance to argue that their broadcast deals with NCAA conferences should not be turned over in antitrust litigation over athletic scholarship rules, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, after the athletes bringing the challenge agreed to let the broadcasters intervene.
December 14, 2015
Iowa State University told a California federal judge Monday that athletes in antitrust litigation challenging the NCAA's scholarship rules are trying to burden the school with overbroad and privacy-violating discovery demands, including a request to identify student-athletes at the school who received financial aid in recent years.
December 07, 2015
A California federal judge certified a class of college athletes Friday in an antitrust suit challenging the NCAA's scholarship rules, rejecting the intercollegiate sports body's contention that the suing star players' interests conflict with athletes who benefit from the rules.
September 09, 2015
The National Collegiate Athletic Association on Tuesday continued its push against class certification in an antitrust challenge to the organization's scholarship rules, arguing that the star players seeking to lead the class in California federal court have interests adverse to other athletes who benefit from the rules.
June 29, 2015
Several star college athletes have urged a California federal judge to grant them class certification in an antitrust suit challenging the NCAA's scholarship restrictions, calling "entirely speculative" the organization's argument that certification would create conflict between athletes who benefit under the current rules and those who don't.