Rescission of DOE Guidance — Highway to NIL Podcast
The Labor Law Insider: Student Athletes as Employees – Changes and Updates on the Dartmouth Case, NIL Litigation
Ley Mbappé
DOE Guidance and DOJ Statement of Interest — Highway to NIL Podcast
NIL News: End of Year Roundup — Highway to NIL Podcast
House Settlement Approval — Highway to NIL Podcast
What's the Tea in L&E? Getting Sued for Using Photos of Employees
TortsCenter Podcast | Episode 6 | Fielding the Future: Title IX and NIL
NCAA Settlement Update — Highway to NIL Podcast
Title IX — Highway to NIL Podcast
NCAA Settlement Hearing — Highway to NIL Podcast
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
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
Welcome to The Academic Advisor - our e-newsletter focused on education law insights. With Fall Break behind us and the race to end-of-term underway, we highlight the following topics of import for schools,...more
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
There is no doubt that name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) deals have been groundbreaking for both men’s and women’s college athletes. It’s the hot topic among everyone in the college sports world — and for good reason. The...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
The College Athletic Department Toolkit Series: Balancing Compliance and Competitive Success in an Era of Change - Don’t make a rookie mistake. Whether you are a new or experienced athletic administrator, refresh your...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
Last week, we began discussing Radwan v. Manuel, a case recently decided by the U.S. Circuit Court for the Second Circuit regarding discipline faced by a soccer player at the University of Connecticut, a public institution....more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has published a significant ruling addressing college student athletes’ First Amendment, procedural due process, and Title IX rights. The case, Radwan v. Manuel,...more
While the match is not final for former college soccer player Noriana Radwan who sued the University of Connecticut for sex discrimination, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, citing an amicus brief filed by Morrison...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
It’s difficult to imagine a four month period more impactful for the NCAA, if not for intercollegiate athletics on the whole, than the one we’re currently in. From the Supreme Court’s decision in Alston in June 2021, to the...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
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
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