January 01, 2020
With college athletes continuing their legal challenge to the NCAA's amateur system and the U.S. women's soccer team fighting for pay equality, 2020 is set to be another busy one for the world of sports law. Here, Law360 takes a look at cases attorneys should watch this year.
November 06, 2019
A liberal think tank, a federation of labor unions and a handful of economists have come out in favor of a Ninth Circuit appeal that could torpedo the NCAA's restrictive student-athlete pay caps, saying a lower court's refusal to do so relied on reasoning that sets a terrible precedent.
October 31, 2019
The player unions for the NFL and NBA want the Ninth Circuit to blow up the NCAA's restrictive caps on how much college athletes can be paid, telling the appeals court they fully support a group of athletes suing to destroy the slippery legal defense of "amateurism" once and for all.
October 24, 2019
A broad class of college basketball and football players suing the NCAA over its restrictive caps on whether — and how much — they can be paid have asked the Ninth Circuit to blow up those rules once and for all.
October 22, 2019
Four TV networks including ESPN and TBS have asked the Ninth Circuit to keep the terms of their multibillion-dollar contracts with the NCAA confidential as the appeals court hears yet another landmark case over whether college athletes can earn money playing sports.