July 20, 2015
The NCAA asked the Ninth Circuit on Friday to pause a judge's decision that allows college athletes to be paid for the use of their names, images and likenesses, a request that comes about two weeks before the lower court's order is set to take effect.
July 08, 2015
The first half of 2015 was action-packed with rulings on key pharmaceutical antitrust issues and agency wins in high-profile challenges, but there's still plenty to watch for over the next six months, including cases that could alter the landscape of college sports and professional baseball and major challenges to benchmark banking rates.
March 17, 2015
A Ninth Circuit panel heard oral arguments Tuesday in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's appeal of a lower court's ruling that the organization's ban on compensating student-athletes violates federal antitrust law, with a skeptical panel questioning a licensing payment regime proposed by the lower court.
March 16, 2015
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday will weigh whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association's ban on compensating student-athletes violates federal antitrust law in a case that may prove key to broader efforts to challenge the NCAA's policies.
February 12, 2015
The National Collegiate Athletic Association told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that its rule requiring student-athletes to be amateurs wasn't anti-competitive, warning that the class plaintiffs' efforts to defend their antitrust injunction was a failed "effort at misdirection."
January 29, 2015
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to affirm a ruling that said college athletes must be paid for use of their images, saying attempts to diminish laws protecting an individual's right of publicity could be "ruinous" to performers' careers.
January 22, 2015
Plaintiffs accusing the National Collegiate Athletic Association of forming a cartel to prevent college athletes from getting paid for the use of their likenesses urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to affirm a lower court's ruling that the NCAA violated antitrust law, arguing evidence showed the association exploited students.
November 24, 2014
The major television networks urged the Ninth Circuit on Monday to overturn a ruling that said college athletes must be paid for use of their images, calling that concept "fundamentally incompatible with basic freedoms to present events of interest to the public."
November 21, 2014
Antitrust professors from law schools at 13 universities on Friday urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse a finding that the National Collegiate Athletic Association broke antitrust law by barring compensation for college athletes for the use of their names, images and likenesses, saying the ruling turns courts into regulators.
November 17, 2014
The National Collegiate Athletic Association on Friday lodged its opening brief in its Ninth Circuit challenge to a finding that it had violated antitrust law by preventing college athletes from being paid for the use of their names, images and likenesses, arguing that its rules regarding payment are consistent with Supreme Court precedent.