January 02, 2023
The sports and betting world will closely follow a pair of consolidated class actions in college athletics related to concussion liability and NIL rights, trademark infringement cases that could tilt the playing field across sports and gaming, and major cases involving the NFL and PGA Tour. Here, Law360 looks at the top sports and betting cases the legal world will be watching in the new year.
October 25, 2022
NCAA athletes have asked a California federal judge to certify multiple classes of Division I student athletes who are challenging the NCAA's name, image and likeness restrictions, arguing that their antitrust allegations can be resolved on a classwide basis.
July 27, 2021
The explosive growth of opportunities for college athletes to cash in on their names, images and likenesses since the NCAA suspended rules limiting such pay is a living experiment that is proving that college athletes have tremendous value that NCAA rules unnecessarily restrict, athletes challenging the rules say.
July 21, 2021
Jeffrey Kessler, Winston & Strawn LLP's co-executive chair who recently argued college athletes' winning U.S. Supreme Court case against the NCAA, is again teaming up with Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP in ongoing class claims challenging the organization's name, image and likeness rules.
June 24, 2021
A California federal judge refused Thursday to dismiss an antitrust suit by current college athletes challenging NCAA rules that restrict them from earning money from the use of their names, images and likenesses, but said one former athlete in the suit could not bring claims.
February 25, 2021
A California federal judge on Thursday rejected the NCAA's bid to pause discovery in two antitrust suits over student-athlete compensation, finding that pausing the cases while the U.S. Supreme Court takes up related litigation may disadvantage the athletes as their name and likeness rights lose value after graduation.
January 03, 2021
Sports leagues and teams are looking to collect billions of dollars lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic as college athletes seek to chip away at the NCAA's amateurism rules in just some of the high-stakes legal battles set to play out in 2021.
July 02, 2020
Attorneys are set to tackle a number of lingering legal issues in the second half of the year, such as a reexamination of NCAA rules prohibiting college athletes from earning money and novel, pandemic-created disputes including fans demanding refunds for canceled games.
June 15, 2020
College athletes repped by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP slammed the NCAA with a new proposed antitrust class action over student-athlete compensation on Monday, this time taking issue with the organization's rules blocking them from receiving compensation for the use of their name, image and likeness.