Get your brackets out! For the first time in three years, March Madness, as we’re used to seeing it, is back. NCAA, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and the Olympics all navigated their way through the pandemic through a combination of delays, bubbles, cancelled games, and various COVID protocols. Will any of this have lasting effects …
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Sports Law Roundup on the NCAA and Name, Image & Likeness Rights
College sports and the legal system seem to be inexorably linked this summer as substantive legal changes reform how student-athletes may profit off their rights of publicity. The Supreme Court, Congress, and state governments have all recently turned attention to NCAA amateurism rules. July 1 will see several states allow athletes to profit off their …
- June 30, 2021
- Leonard Lee
What’s in a Name? The Battle Over Name, Image & Likeness Rights for NCAA Student-Athletes Continues
It happened. The NCAA has introduced a framework to allow collegiate student athletes to profit off publicity rights. The report came from the NCAA’s Federal and State Legislation Working Group. The NCAA currently prohibits student athletes profiting off their name, image, or likeness (NIL) rights while in college (a prohibition unique to athletes compared to, …
- May 21, 2020
- Peter Colin
Cash Is King: New Law Permits Student-Athlete Compensation
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) system faces a fresh challenge in the form of California Senate Bill 206. The bill, commonly called the Fair Pay to Play Act, strives to pierce the veil of amateurism and allow student-athletes to contract endorsements and sponsorships. To facilitate such deals, student-athletes will be permitted to hire state-licensed …
- October 22, 2019
- Jeff McCoy
Podcast: NCAA class-action ready to tip-off
The class-action lawsuit including former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon against the NCAA begins in District Court in Los Angeles next week. In addition, the NCAA is appealing a recent regional NLRB ruling that Northwestern University football players have the right to unionize. Marta Fernandez of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell has dealt with NLRB issues …
- June 3, 2014
- Leonard Lee
Super Lawyers picks the winners of the 2014 NCAA Mens Basketball Championship
What better predictor of the 2014 NCAA Mens Basketball Championship than by number of attorneys selected to the 2013 Super Lawyers list who graduated from the participating colleges’ law schools? After crunching the numbers, Super Lawyers predicts that on the evening of April 7, after a hard-fought, back-and-forth game, Harvard will prevail over Michigan 97-91. It will be …
- March 20, 2014
- Alex Cook
Attorney and author Jeffrey Kessler files high-profile NCAA lawsuit
High-profile sports and labor attorney Jeffrey Kessler, also a Thomson Reuters key author, filed an antitrust lawsuit on behalf of college football and men’s basketball players in a New Jersey federal court Monday, naming the NCAA and the five richest power conferences — the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 and Big 12 — as defendants. …
- March 20, 2014
- Susan Martin
