October 20, 2023
An Indiana federal judge threw out a proposed class action linking the NCAA's academic eligibility requirements to racial bias, finding that an ex-basketball player filed his claims too late, though a separate lawsuit making similar claims lives on.
September 06, 2023
An Indiana magistrate judge has rejected a college basketball player's bid to insert herself into a federal racial discrimination suit, saying that her motion was untimely and that she had not established that denying her request to intervene would stymie or interfere with her interests.
August 21, 2023
The NCAA has pushed back against a college basketball player who asked to insert herself into a federal Indiana racial discrimination suit, calling the request "inappropriate and impermissible" because she would be pursuing identical claims against the athletic organization in two simultaneous cases.
May 05, 2023
The NCAA has asked an Indiana federal judge to exclude the testimony of an expert for former HBCU athletes suing for racial discrimination, calling his analysis of the racial disparities in the NCAA's Academic Performance Program "inapplicable and irrelevant," and adding that the athletes should be denied class certification on that basis.
April 27, 2023
The lead plaintiff in a proposed class action accusing the NCAA of discriminating against athletes at HBCUs has amended his complaint in federal court in Indianapolis, clarifying who was allegedly harmed by the organization's postseason bans related to academic performance and bolstering his claims that the NCAA's punishments violated its agreements with the athletes.
April 10, 2023
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is urging an Indiana federal court to deny class certification to more than 1,600 Black athletes who accuse the organization of racially discriminating against students at historically Black colleges and universities, arguing the proposed plaintiffs are too diverse because they hail from different schools, conferences and teams with their own set of unique circumstances.
June 16, 2022
An Indiana federal magistrate judge refused to disqualify Fegan Scott LLC from a proposed discrimination class action against the NCAA, saying it is clear one of its ex-attorneys kept the firm in the dark about his side hustle as a document reviewer for the collegiate organization.
June 01, 2022
Fegan Scott LLC pushed back at the NCAA's bid to disqualify it from a proposed discrimination class action, saying it was unaware that a now-former attorney was simultaneously working for the collegiate organization as a document reviewer because the employee "completely hid" his moonlighting.
May 24, 2022
The NCAA urged an Indiana federal court to disqualify Fegan Scott LLC from a proposed discrimination class action, saying one of the firm's lawyers simultaneously worked for the collegiate organization's document-review vendor.
September 14, 2021
Two former NCAA basketball players have sufficiently claimed the organization's Academic Performance Program discriminates against student-athletes at historically Black colleges and universities, an Indiana federal judge held Monday in keeping alive a proposed class action.