August 12, 2019
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday rejected a bid by a former University of Southern California linebacker to revive a proposed class action claiming the NCAA and Pac-12 Conference improperly deny student-athletes minimum wage and overtime, saying the organizations are regulatory bodies and not employers.
October 15, 2018
The NCAA and Pac-12 Conference should be considered joint employers of a proposed class of college football players because the sports regulators set limits on pay and work hours, a former student-athlete told the Ninth Circuit on Monday as he sought to revive his wage-and-hour suit against the organizations.
July 02, 2018
The NCAA is already pointing to a decision by the Seventh Circuit upholding its transfer restriction rule to argue that the Ninth Circuit should not revive a separate proposed wage-and-hour class action, saying the Seventh Circuit's decision proves its athletes are amateurs and not employees.
April 19, 2018
The NCAA on Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to look at a recent decision denying a wage suit over a televangelist whose followers were allegedly coerced into volunteering for his church's for-profit restaurant, citing it as further reason not to revive a proposed wage-and-hour class action by a former University of Southern California football player.
April 05, 2018
The NCAA told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that a U.S. Supreme Court decision in an overtime case Monday undermined the arguments of a former University of Southern California linebacker trying to revive his wage and overtime class action.
January 11, 2018
A former University of Southern California linebacker lobbed another bid to convince the Ninth Circuit to revive his wage and overtime class action against the NCAA and the Pacific-12 Conference, arguing the "economic realities" of the case prove that players are being underpaid.
December 06, 2017
A lawyer for the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Tuesday told a Ninth Circuit panel that it should disregard an assertion by the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel that scholarship football players are employees, after a recent memo reversed that stance.
November 21, 2017
The NCAA and the Pacific-12 Conference told the Ninth Circuit on Monday they should not have to face a proposed minimum wage and overtime pay class action brought by a former collegiate football player, urging the court not to revive the suit because the U.S. Supreme Court and California Legislature do not classify student-athletes as employees.
September 21, 2017
A former University of Southern California linebacker on Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive his putative minimum wage and overtime pay class action against the NCAA and Pac-12 Conference, arguing that he and other student athletes are "unquestionably" employees.