March 12, 2025
A California federal judge on Tuesday certified a class of potentially thousands of former NCAA Division I volunteer coaches who allege the athletic organization's now-repealed bylaw illegally suppressed their wages in violation of antitrust laws, and the judge also refused to exclude the class's damages report by a Princeton University professor.
July 28, 2023
A California federal judge has refused to toss or transfer proposed antitrust class actions by college volunteer coaches over the NCAA's now-defunct rules prohibiting Division I volunteer coaches from being paid, finding the claims are sufficiently pled and the NCAA hasn't shown litigating in California is inconvenient.
May 25, 2023
The NCAA urged a California federal judge Wednesday to toss a proposed class action from former volunteer coaches who claim an association bylaw limiting the number of paid coaches Division I schools may hire amounts to illegal wage fixing, saying the group has failed to show how the rules caused them any injury.