Johnson Case’s Potential Impact on Colleges, NIL, and College Athletics — Highway to NIL
Examining the New NCAA Transfer Rules and Tampering - Highway to NIL Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - NCAA Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) Update – Recent Lawsuits
NCAA Settlement - Highway to NIL Podcast
SCOTUS applies the "discovery rule" in timely copyright infringement claim; Cher wins in Marital Settlement Agreement vs Copyright Grant Termination Notices; Student Athletes Win Revenue Share and NIL
Are Colleges Prepared to Classify Student-Athletes as Employees?
Post-Injunction Enforcement — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Labor Law Insider—Dartmouth Men's Basketball Team Unionizes: Air Ball or Nothing But Net?
Labor Law Insider—Dartmouth Basketball Team Unionizes: The NLRB Sets a Pick for Unions
The NCAA's Response to the NIL Recruitment Injunction — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL Recruitment Injunction — Highway to NIL Podcast
Proof in Trial: University of Louisville
State AGs File NIL Antitrust Lawsuits — Highway to NIL Podcast
2024 NIL Predictions — Highway to NIL Podcast
NCAA Division I Council Approves New NIL Disclosure and Transparency Rules — Highway to NIL Podcast
NCAA President Proposes Radical Changes to NIL Rules — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL Antitrust Litigation - Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL Senate Hearing — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Labor Law Insider - Recent U.S. Supreme Court, NLRB Decisions Highlight Labor Issues in Higher Education, Part II
The Labor Law Insider: Recent U.S. Supreme Court, NLRB Decisions Highlight Labor Issues in Higher Education
On May 23, 2024, the NCAA and the five autonomy conferences — known colloquially as the “Power Five” — agreed to terms for a $2.78 billion settlement to resolve three lawsuits in federal court: House v. NCAA, Hubbard v. NCAA...more
In last year’s report, we discussed House v. National Collegiate Athletic Association—the third case in a trilogy filed by current and former student-athletes who claim the NCAA, as well as the Power 5 conferences, violated...more
Having introduced the cast and set the scene in part 1 of this 3-part series, we turn now to the details. But before doing so, let’s get one thing out of the way – you likely won’t have unionized players on campus...more
On October 17, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from witnesses about the need for reform in college athletics, including the possibility of establishing a national standard for regulating Name, Image, and...more
This question, once settled, has seen increased scrutiny in recent years both from the National Labor Relations Board and courts that have considered the issue.2 One of those courts – the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to change the standard for determining if two employers may be joint employers under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)....more
The academic calendar has turned to October as athletic conferences and their member institutions attempt to deal with athletes’ growing expectations about name, image and likeness (NIL) opportunities. The tsunami created by...more
On September 29, 2021, the General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), put colleges and universities on notice that she plans to prosecute cases against them for denying student athletes their rights...more
The on-and-off effort at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to classify “student-athletes” as “employees” has renewed. Although the National Labor Relations Act contains no formal recognition of student-athletes as...more
On September 29, 2021, National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB") General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum describing her intent to treat scholarship athletes at Division-I Football Bowl Subdivision ("FBS")...more
Amateur Athletes Protection and Compensation Act. The Amateur Athletes Protection and Compensation Act of 2021 (Protection Act), the sixth federal proposal governing student-athlete name, image, and likeness (NIL)...more
The Coronavirus Pandemic sent colleges and universities scrambling to make decisions regarding how to deliver their academic offerings to students, with some welcoming students back to campus this fall, some transitioning to...more
In early August, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Board of Governors issued requirements for fall sports, simultaneously directing its member schools and conferences to meet these requirements in order to...more
In a seeming about-face, the NCAA’s governing board voted unanimously on October 29, 2019 to allow college athletes to be compensated for the use of their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”)....more
The Michigan House of Representatives introduced legislation that would allow college athletes to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation. Michigan House Bill No. 5217...more
While student-athletes and colleges and universities across the country await an anticipated response from the NCAA’s established working group regarding name, image and likeness rights, a growing number of states continue to...more
The number of states supporting the growing effort to secure legal rights for student-athletes to market their name, image, and likeness for economic benefit without affecting either their scholarship benefits or amateur...more
Last year we wrote about the summary judgment decision in an MDL class action then pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, In re NCAA Athletic Grant-In-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation. ...more
In what has become known as the Alston or Jenkins case, a California district judge has issued a 104-page order in In re: NCAA Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation. The matter focused on NCAA rules that prohibit schools from...more
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and 11 of its member conferences are on trial in In Re: National Collegiate Athletic Association Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation (4:14-md-2541) to defend against...more
As an exciting weekend of college football kickoff games comes to a close, a trial that could fundamentally alter the landscape of collegiate athletics is just beginning. On September 4th, a bench trial began in the...more
Alabama baseball coach Greg Goff was fired after one season at the helm of the Crimson Tide baseball program after a disappointing 19-34-1 overall record and a 5-24-1 record against Southeastern Conference competition. ...more
This is the first installment of a series regarding legal issues affecting college athletics that this blog will run during this year’s NCAA basketball tournament. Two horrible March Madness brackets ago, we analyzed the...more
In a decision handed down on September 30th, the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part the District Court’s ruling that the NCAA’s “amateurism” rules unlawfully restrained trade in the market for certain...more
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