In re College Athlete NIL Litigation

  1. October 25, 2022

    NCAA Athletes Seek Cert. In Antitrust Suit Over NIL Limits

    NCAA athletes have asked a California federal judge to certify multiple classes of Division I student athletes who are challenging the NCAA's name, image and likeness restrictions, arguing that their antitrust allegations can be resolved on a classwide basis.

  2. July 27, 2021

    NCAA Athletes Say Name, Image 'Experiment' Proves Case

    The explosive growth of opportunities for college athletes to cash in on their names, images and likenesses since the NCAA suspended rules limiting such pay is a living experiment that is proving that college athletes have tremendous value that NCAA rules unnecessarily restrict, athletes challenging the rules say.

  3. July 21, 2021

    Winston & Strawn Joins NCAA NIL Case After High Court Win

    Jeffrey Kessler, Winston & Strawn LLP's co-executive chair who recently argued college athletes' winning U.S. Supreme Court case against the NCAA, is again teaming up with Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP in ongoing class claims challenging the organization's name, image and likeness rules.

  4. June 24, 2021

    NCAA Can't Escape Current Athletes' Name, Image Claims

    A California federal judge refused Thursday to dismiss an antitrust suit by current college athletes challenging NCAA rules that restrict them from earning money from the use of their names, images and likenesses, but said one former athlete in the suit could not bring claims.

  5. February 25, 2021

    NCAA Loses Bid To Pause Athlete Pay Suits

    A California federal judge on Thursday rejected the NCAA's bid to pause discovery in two antitrust suits over student-athlete compensation, finding that pausing the cases while the U.S. Supreme Court takes up related litigation may disadvantage the athletes as their name and likeness rights lose value after graduation.

  6. January 03, 2021

    Sports & Betting Cases To Watch In 2021

    Sports leagues and teams are looking to collect billions of dollars lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic as college athletes seek to chip away at the NCAA's amateurism rules in just some of the high-stakes legal battles set to play out in 2021.

  7. July 02, 2020

    5 Sports & Betting Cases To Watch: Midyear Report

    Attorneys are set to tackle a number of lingering legal issues in the second half of the year, such as a reexamination of NCAA rules prohibiting college athletes from earning money and novel, pandemic-created disputes including fans demanding refunds for canceled games.

  8. June 15, 2020

    NCAA Hit With More Antitrust Claims Over Student-Athlete Pay

    College athletes repped by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP slammed the NCAA with a new proposed antitrust class action over student-athlete compensation on Monday, this time taking issue with the organization's rules blocking them from receiving compensation for the use of their name, image and likeness.