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Tennessee basketball player Zakai Zeigler has appealed the district court’s denial of his bid to secure a preliminary injunction against the NCAA’s “Four-Seasons Rule.” We will be closely following what the Sixth Circuit...more
House v. NCAA Update- As previously reported, the April 7 House v. NCAA hearing ended with Judge Wilken giving the settlement parties an opportunity to address certain concerns regarding the implementation of roster limits...more
On April 25, U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi ordered the NCAA not to enforce its Five-Year Rule against Rutgers University cornerback Jett Elad. The impact of name, image, and likeness (NIL) agreements on the new world...more
Rutgers University football player Jett Elad is one of the latest student-athletes to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the U.S. District Court for the District of...more
A bipartisan coalition of five AGs reached a final settlement with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to resolve allegations that the organization’s restrictions on future student-athletes’ ability to...more
Recently, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia denied a request from a D-1 baseball player for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the NCAA related to his eligibility, as well as a preliminary...more
A bipartisan coalition of 5 AGs reached a settlement with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to resolve allegations that the organization’s restrictions on future student-athletes’ ability to commercially use...more
Athletic departments at NCAA member institutions must now consider whether their student-athletes who transferred from non-NCAA schools are eligible to play another season of college sports....more
In “Case” You Missed It is a Yellowhammer News column by Balch & Bingham attorney Tripp DeMoss that briefly summarizes a recently issued decision by higher courts like the U.S. Supreme Court and Alabama Supreme Court in cases...more
On Wednesday, attorneys general (AG) for the states of Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia announced that they are joining Tennessee and Virginia in a multistate coalition challenging the National Collegiate...more
The members of BakerHostetler’s Antitrust and Competition Team are pleased to present these additional brief updates from the conference sessions at this week’s ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C. ...more
“The wild west” is by far the most frequent characterization used to describe college sports since NCAA v Alston, 141 S. Ct. 2141, paved the way for college athletes to be compensated for use of their Name, Image, and...more
On December 13, a West Virginia federal judge placed a temporary hold on an NCAA rule (NCAA Division I Bylaw 14.5.5.1) requiring certain student-athletes who transferred schools to wait a year before competing in games. This...more
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) faces a new legal challenge as seven U.S. states have filed a federal lawsuit alleging the NCAA’s student-athlete transfer eligibility rule violates U.S. antitrust law....more
On June 21, 2021, the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) released its highly anticipated opinion in NCAA v. Alston. SCOTUS unanimously upheld the rulings by the United States District Court for the Northern District of...more
In this episode of “Lawyers With Game,” host Darius Gambino of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Video Gaming and Esports Practice, discusses the issues of college athletes being compensated for their name, image and likeness...more
The United States Supreme Court decided two antitrust cases for October Term 2020. The first case, AMG Capital Management v. Federal Trade Commission, unanimously held that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not...more
The NCAA has implemented a blockbuster temporary policy allowing college athletes to be paid for the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL). This reversal of the NCAA’s long-standing ban against compensation to college...more
On June 21, 2021, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that NCAA rules prohibiting most types of compensation for student-athletes’ name, image and likeness (NIL) violate federal antitrust laws in the landmark...more
Strange as it may be, with vast majority of the world still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are on the eve of the opening ceremony for the “2020” Tokyo Summer Olympics. Olympic games in “normal” times are logistical...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston that the NCAA violated antitrust law by prohibiting member colleges from providing athletes with certain educational benefits....more
In a recent unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of the United States in NCAA v. Alston ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) limits on education-related benefits are invalid under federal...more
Following a unanimous ground-breaking decision delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court in NCAA v. Alston, effective July 1, 2021, the NCAA adopted an interim Name, Image and Likeness (“NIL”) policy, which set off broad NIL...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
Just days ago, in NCAA v. Alston, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the NCAA may place no limits on “education-related” benefits to student-athletes. Siding with current and former student-athlete plaintiffs, the Court...more