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Flag on the Play: 2023 NIL Wrapped

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Reviewing the Major Plays of 2023 - This past year saw major developments in the world of college sports. From challenges to name, image and likeness (NIL) contracts to congressional hearings to proposed NCAA guidelines,...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

NLRB GC Files Complaint Alleging USC’s Football and Basketball Players are Employees

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Are Division I athletes who play football and basketball “student-athletes” or “employees”? The National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel (GC) has filed a complaint against the NCAA, the PAC-12, and the University of...more

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Effort to Classify Student-Athletes as Employees Continues With New Twist to Include Public University Students

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Ongoing efforts to urge the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to classify student-athletes as employees continue with the latest unfair labor charge filed by the National College Players Association (NCPA) and their...more

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Florida Says “Show Me the Money” Intercollegiate Athlete Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) Bill is Now Law

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Amidst the seemingly ever-shifting landscape of college sports, further change just came in a big way from the Sunshine State. On June 12, 2020, Florida enacted a new law that paves the way for intercollegiate athletes at...more

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March Inevitableness? Considering the Legal Consequences of Pay to Student-Athletes

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As of this writing, it has been over 850 days since UConn women’s basketball team has lost a game. When the Huskies last tasted defeat (in an overtime thriller to Stanford on November 17, 2014), football players at...more

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Seventh Circuit Agrees: Student-Athletes Are Not Employees Under the FLSA

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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Gillian Berger, et al. v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, et al, 16-1558 (7th Cir. 2016) has affirmed a district court's decision that...more

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Title IX Implications of the O'Bannon Decision

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The recent federal appellate decision in O'Bannon v. NCAA may have profound implications for colleges obligated to ensure gender equity in athletics under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). In the...more

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Court Rules NCAA Can Block Colleges from Paying Student-Athletes, But Allows Scholarships for “Full Cost of Attendance”

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In a partial victory for the NCAA, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned in part a permanent injunction issued by the District Court for the Northern District of California, which had required the NCAA to allow...more

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NLRB Punts on First Down: Declines to Exercise Jurisdiction in Northwestern University Football Players Union Representation Case

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The NLRB’s decision is limited to the facts presented by the Northwestern case, and the Board may assert jurisdiction in another case involving scholarship athletes at a later date. On August 17th, the National Labor...more

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