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Student Athletes NCAA Employment Litigation

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Can Student-Athletes Be Considered Employees?

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The debate over fair compensation for NCAA athletes has intensified, shifting from if athletes should be paid to how they should be compensated. The rise of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) payments has added momentum to this...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Film Room: House hearing update

In this week’s Film Room, we cut through the noise and draw your attention to key takeaways from the House hearing, including a preview of what’s next. We also bring you up to speed on an important update in the Schroeder...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Film Room: State of Tennessee, et al. v. NCAA, House, Johnson

In this week’s Film Room, we get you up to speed on action this past week in the following cases: - State of Tennessee, et al. v. NCAA - House - Johnson State of Tennessee, et al. v. NCAA - On March 21, 2025, the...more

Snell & Wilmer

House Settlement

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One of the most significant legal battles in collegiate athletics recently received another boost. On October 7, 2024, the proposed House v. NCAA settlement received preliminary approval from Judge Claudia Wilken in the...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On February 18, 2025, National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel William Cowen rescinded a September 2021 memorandum in which former Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo declared college athletes should be...more

Venable LLP

Johnson v. NCAA: Student-Athlete Employment Status in the Second Trump Administration

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As previously reported here, on July 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (the Third Circuit) ruled that collegiate student athletes could theoretically be considered employees of their respective...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Film Room

Happy new year and welcome to 2025, a year of unprecedented change in college athletics. This is Film room, where we’ll break down the whirlwind of legal and regulatory activity in college athletics....more

Kaufman & Canoles

K&C Sports & Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup - September 2024 #3

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive order Tuesday that will allow colleges in the state, including the University of Georgia, to pay players directly for the use of their name, image and likeness....more

Littler

Littler Lightbulb: July Appellate Roundup

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This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments in federal courts of appeal in the last month....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Work Hard, Play Hard: Third Circuit Establishes Test for Analyzing Employee Status of NCAA College Athletes Under FLSA

The landscape of college sports is undergoing rapid transition, driven by significant changes such as the advent and growth of name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights for college athletes and the House v. NCAA proposed...more

Fisher Phillips

The Top 16 Workplace Law Stories from November 2021

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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

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