May 19, 2016
Though many saw the Ninth Circuit's O'Bannon decision as a win for the NCAA, the intercollegiate athletics body has gone on the offensive and joined the former player plaintiffs in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take a look at a part of the ruling some experts say could cause problems for the organization.
May 13, 2016
The NCAA on Friday asked the Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit's landmark decision finding the collegiate athletics governing body's rules prohibiting student-athletes from being paid to be anti-competitive, thereby allowing them to be compensated up to the full cost of attendance.
March 03, 2016
The NCAA said Thursday it has requested an extension from the Ninth Circuit to file a petition for U.S. Supreme Court review of a decision that found its ban on compensation for the use of student-athletes' images and likenesses was anti-competitive.
December 16, 2015
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday denied a bid to rehear its earlier decision that student-athletes don't have to be paid beyond the cost of attending college, a move that comes even after the appellate court had asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association to respond to a rehearing request.
November 17, 2015
The NCAA asked the Ninth Circuit on Monday not to grant an en banc rehearing of its opinion that student-athletes should not be eligible for cash payments of up to $5,000, maintaining that those payments would negatively impact the "amateurism" that characterizes college athletics.
October 26, 2015
The Ninth Circuit has directed the NCAA to respond to a bid to rehear a decision that student-athletes do not have to be paid beyond the cost of attending college, signaling that the appeals court is possibly considering taking another look at the case.
September 30, 2015
Despite its holding that rules banning student-athlete compensation are anti-competitive, the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday handed a major victory to the NCAA in its fight to preserve amateur athletics as it overturned the organization's loss on the key issue of pay that goes beyond the cost of attendance, experts say.
September 30, 2015
The Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that NCAA athletes did not have to be paid beyond the cost of attending college, despite concluding that the NCAA's rules banning compensation for the use of students' images and likenesses were anti-competitive.
July 31, 2015
The Ninth Circuit agreed Friday to pause an injunction requiring the National Collegiate Athletic Association to lift its ban on universities compensating male football and basketball players until the court rules on the merits of the antitrust challenge to the policy.
July 29, 2015
The NCAA on Tuesday tried to stop an order that would allow for college athletes to be paid for the use of their names, images and likenesses, saying plaintiffs' only defense so far has been to "belittle and demonize the NCAA."