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From Settlement to Scrutiny: Employment, NIL, and Title IX in College Sports

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The House v. NCAA settlement has transformed the college sports landscape, raising new questions around athlete employment status; name, image, and likeness (NIL) compliance; and Title IX obligations. As legal challenges and...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Saving College Sports: What You Need to Know About the July 24, 2025 Executive Order

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Overview: A month after the approval of the game-changing House settlement, which allows many colleges and universities to compensate student-athletes directly, President Trump signed an Executive Order on July 24, 2025,...more

Loeb & Loeb LLP

With Executive Order, President Trump Aims To Reshape College Sports

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This alert was developed with significant assistance and input from Lo Davis, Executive Director of Cavalier Futures Marketing Inc. On July 24, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Saving College...more

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Beltway Buzz - August 2025

The Beltway Buzz™ is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more

Fox Rothschild LLP

New Game Plan: White House and Congress Move to Clarify Student Athlete Unionization Rights

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Last week, both Congress and President Trump took steps that could reshape how labor and employment laws apply to student athletes in higher education. While neither action will have immediate legal effect, together they...more

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Presidential Order Aims to Bring Stability to Intercollegiate Sports

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On July 24, President Trump issued an executive order (EO) entitled, “Saving College Sports.” The order includes several policy statements and directives with the stated purpose being to provide for the fair treatment of...more

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2025 Summer Reading List for Educational Leaders

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Another school year is winding down, and educational leaders perhaps have never been more ready for summer break. From the Trump administration’s significant policy shifts to deeply consequential litigation playing out to...more

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The First 100 Days: President Trump’s Federal Policy Revamp and New Compliance Concerns for Employers

On April 29, 2025, President Donald Trump completed his first one hundred days of his second term in office. During this time, the president issued numerous executive orders (EOs) and implemented actions that significantly...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 2, March 2025

Welcome to our second issue of The Academic Advisor for 2025. In this edition, we cover the following topics of interest for schools, institutions of higher education, and other education-focused organizations: - the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Film Room: updates on House implementation, DOE and NLRB

It was another busy week of courtroom and regulatory activity in college athletics. In this week’s Film Room, we share important takeaways regarding: - House implementation committee update - Department of Education’s...more

Alston & Bird

How College Legal Departments Can Prepare for Changes in Student-Athletes’ Employment Status

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Our Education Group discusses how college and university legal counsel can track and prepare for changes in student-athletes’ employment status....more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

NLRB Acting GC: Student-Athletes Are Not Employees

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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

Kaufman & Canoles

Parting Wisdom: Outgoing Departments of Education and Justice Weigh In on NIL

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In the wake of the pending House settlement, the Third Circuit’s opinion in Johnson v. NCAA, and the NLRB’s push for athlete employment and unionization, the spotlight has predictably shifted to colleges and universities who...more

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Unions Call Time Out on College Athletes, but Campus Organizing Plays On

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The Dartmouth Men’s Basketball team, represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 560, requested to withdraw its petition to unionize on December 31, 2024. The petition, approved by the National Labor...more

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The NLRB's Race to Turn Student Athletes into Employees Faces Its Next Hurdle - A Change in Administration

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We previously reported that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) heard a complaint earlier this year against the NCAA, the University of Southern California, and the Pac-12 Conference for failing to classify student...more

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From Backcourt To The Gridiron, Universities Oppose The NLRB’s Enforcement Position Regarding Their Athletes

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On New Year’s Eve, the union attempting to organize Dartmouth College's men’s basketball team dropped its NLRB case after winning a groundbreaking decision in February 2024 from a NLRB Regional Director who decided that the...more

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Efforts to Turn NCAA Student-Athletes Into Employees Takes A Major Step Backwards

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In September 2023, the Service Employees International Union filed a Petition to represent the players on the Dartmouth College “Men’s Basketball Team.” In March 2024, an election was held. Dartmouth College’s mens’...more

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NCAA Answers Some House Questions, Leaves Others Up in the Air

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) updated its House Settlement Question and Answer document on December 9, 2024, giving insight into how the NCAA is preparing for the settlement’s potential approval (see our...more

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Losing for Winning: Dartmouth Basketball Team’s Ill-Fated Unionization Effort

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The Dartmouth men’s basketball team is scheduled to tip-off its 2024-25 NCAA season. Not surprisingly, they will do so without a labor contract, notwithstanding the team’s historic vote last March to unionize under federal...more

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Organized Labor Ups the Ante with Push to Turn Student-Athletes Into Employees

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The ongoing battle to turn NCAA student-athletes into employees continued this week. As reported here early this year, in February, Laura Sacks, Regional Director of Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board, issued a...more

BakerHostetler

International Student-Athletes and Their Eligibility for NIL Partnerships

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NIL partnerships between businesses and collegiate student-athletes remain a lucrative opportunity. In fact, marketing and advertising through student-athletes has been so successful that the NIL industry is projected to soon...more

Conn Maciel Carey LLP

Some Athletes Say “Show Me the Money” and a Union Third Circuit and NLRB General Counsel Lead the Way

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Some college athletes are demanding “show me the money!” in a way that could upend how we understand college athletics, how certain college sports programs are managed outside of institutional rules, policies, and procedures,...more

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K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - August 2024

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Streaming service Fubo has told a NY federal court that ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery are teaming up with others to knock down its “sports-first streaming business,” but what Fubo calls anticompetitive behavior, the...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Legal Update: NCAA Athletes As Employees Of Their Schools Gains Momentum In Federal Court And The NLRB

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Introduction - In the past three years, groundbreaking legal and structural changes have shaken collegiate sports. In June 2021, a unanimous Supreme Court held in NCAA v. Alston, 594 U.S. 69 (2021), that the NCAA and some...more

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Third Circuit Holds That NCAA Athletes May Qualify as Employees Under the FLSA

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Recently, in Johnson v. NCAA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that, depending upon the surrounding circumstances, student-athletes may qualify as employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This...more

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