October 22, 2024
A group of college athletes challenging the Ivy League's practice of prohibiting athletic scholarships told a Connecticut federal judge they plan to appeal the dismissal of their antitrust suit against Harvard and other top-tier universities.
October 11, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA and the athletes suing it over name, image and likeness money satisfy a judge with their proposed settlement revisions, an NFL quarterback settles yet another sexual assault accusation, and a legal battle between the NFL and one of its former reporters ends amicably.
October 10, 2024
A Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday snuffed out a proposed antitrust class action from college athletes challenging the Ivy League's longstanding ban on athletic scholarships, ruling the complaint did not identify a specific market harmed by the policy.
September 03, 2024
Two Brown University athletes have withdrawn their opposition to the NCAA's proposed $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement, telling a federal judge in California on Tuesday that they've been assured it will not impact their own antitrust case against several Ivy League schools.
August 04, 2023
A Connecticut federal judge issued ground rules Friday for the release of electronic data, expert reports and federal program records sought during discovery in an antitrust class action targeting Ivy League and member university athletic scholarship denials, finding "good cause" for conditional access to the data.
July 28, 2023
The former college athletes in a proposed class action against Ivy League schools have not proved that refusing to award athletic scholarships exposes them to antitrust liability, the schools have told a Connecticut federal judge.
June 30, 2023
A proposed class of student-athletes has adequately alleged that the Ivy League and its member universities are harming competition, overcharging and undercompensating them by refusing to offer athletic scholarships, so their antitrust suit should survive, the plaintiffs have told a Connecticut federal court.
June 05, 2023
Courts in Connecticut are working through thorny legal issues involving controversies of national interest and headline-grabbing public figures, and significant decisions in high-dollar civil cases are possible before the end of 2023.
May 16, 2023
The Ivy League and its member universities asked a Connecticut federal judge to dismiss a proposed antitrust class action case against their policy prohibiting athletic scholarships, arguing that the claims don't make the cut because they don't suggest any harm, much less market-wide harm, to competition.
May 05, 2023
Former U.S. Solicitor General Seth P. Waxman, now a partner at WilmerHale, is the latest high-profile attorney joining the legal team representing eight Ivy League universities in a proposed antitrust class action brought by student-athletes.