The NCAA's Recent Q&A Document: Clues on What NIL Enforcement Will Look Like Post-House — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL Enforcement in a Post-House World – What Institutions Can Expect — Highway to NIL Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - NCAA Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) Update – Effects of House Settlement
House Final Settlement Hearing: Key Insights and Future Implications for NIL — Highway to NIL Podcast
What is the House v. NCAA settlement and how does this ruling affect college sports?
Rescission of DOE Guidance — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Labor Law Insider: Student Athletes as Employees – Changes and Updates on the Dartmouth Case, NIL Litigation
DOE Guidance and DOJ Statement of Interest — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL News: End of Year Roundup — Highway to NIL Podcast
House Settlement Approval — Highway to NIL Podcast
What's the Tea in L&E? Getting Sued for Using Photos of Employees
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 6 | Fielding the Future: Title IX and NIL
NCAA Settlement Update — Highway to NIL Podcast
Title IX — Highway to NIL Podcast
NCAA Settlement Hearing — Highway to NIL Podcast
Johnson Case’s Potential Impact on Colleges, NIL, and College Athletics — Highway to NIL
Examining the New NCAA Transfer Rules and Tampering - Highway to NIL Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - NCAA Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) Update – Recent Lawsuits
NCAA Settlement - Highway to NIL Podcast
SCOTUS applies the "discovery rule" in timely copyright infringement claim; Cher wins in Marital Settlement Agreement vs Copyright Grant Termination Notices; Student Athletes Win Revenue Share and NIL
On February 18, 2025, National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel William Cowen rescinded a September 2021 memorandum in which former Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo declared college athletes should be...more
The 2nd Annual Athletic Department Toolkit Series: Balancing Compliance and Competitive Success in an Era of Change (Higher Education) - New year, new topics. Stay up-to-date on current and forward-looking legal and...more
Over the past decade, the NCAA and its member schools have been engaged in numerous legal battles regarding college athlete compensation and the employment status of college athletes. Most recently, the Third Circuit in...more
Yesterday, a federal appeals court became the first to rule that student-athletes at NCAA Division I schools can bring a lawsuit claiming they are employees and may be entitled to minimum wage and overtime payments under...more
The Third Circuit is expected to soon make a decision as to whether student-athletes can be considered university “employees” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). But its interpretation of the law might reverberate...more
The Board’s composition changed significantly during 2021, switching from a Republican to a Democrat-appointed majority. The five seats on the Board are traditionally filled by two Democrats, two Republicans, and a chairman...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
As most are aware, lawsuits brought by college athletes alleging entitlement to wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) have been uniformly rebuked by reviewing courts that have immediately dismissed such suits for...more
“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” This quote (attributed to Brazilian author Paulo Cuelho) comes to mind with last month’s filing of yet another...more
As the U.S. Supreme Court stated in a 1984 decision involving the University of Oklahoma, there exists in this country a “revered tradition of amateurism in college sports.” Despite this tradition, there have been an...more
NEWS & ANALYSIS - President-Elect Trump chooses Andrew F. Puzder for U.S. Secretary of Labor – “the times they are a changin’.” As we reported at the time, on December 8 President-Elect Trump announced that Andrew F....more
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Gillian Berger, et al. v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al, 16-1558 (7th Cir. 2016) has affirmed a district court's decision that...more
Back in August, the National Labor Relations Board threw the higher education community a curve ball ruling that student assistants at Columbia University were employees under the National Labor Relations Act, and were...more
Yesterday, the Seventh Circuit released a decision broadly ruling that student-athletes are not employees for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In Berger v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, two women...more
As schools seek to adjust to the new Department of Labor overtime exemption rules and increased salary standards, nearly every institution has classification and overtime-calculation questions about athletic coaches and...more
Last year the National Labor Relations Board ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to consider a petition by undergraduate football players at Northwestern University for recognition of a union and collective bargaining...more
In another blow to legal arguments that student-athletes should be paid as employees, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana recently concluded that student-athletes at the University of Pennsylvania...more
Last week, an Indianapolis federal court dismissed the NCAA and more than 100 Division I schools from a lawsuit that claimed student-athletes should be entitled to minimum wage and overtime payments for the athletic "work"...more
An Indiana federal court has dismissed Berger v. NCAA et al, a suit brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act by former student-athletes from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). More commonly known as Sackos, the case was...more
On February 16, 2016, a federal district court in Indiana held that former athletes at the University of Pennsylvania were not university employees entitled to the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The...more