JOHNSON v. THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION et al

  1. August 19, 2022

    NCAA Makes Latest Bid To Maintain Athletes' Amateur Status

    The NCAA has continued to insist that college athletes should not be considered employees, telling the Third Circuit that last year's bombshell U.S. Supreme Court decision knocking down payment restrictions should not disturb its decades-long tradition of amateurism.

  2. February 04, 2022

    3rd Circ. To Weigh Whether NCAA Athletes Are Employees

    The Third Circuit will consider whether NCAA athletes are employees due minimum wage and overtime in a potential landmark collective action that will test the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's game-changing summer decision lifting other restraints on athletes' compensation.

  3. January 25, 2022

    NCAA Can't Get 2nd Shot To Toss 'Employee' Suit, Court Told

    College athletes seeking minimum wage in a potential landmark putative collective action urged a federal judge on Monday to reject the NCAA's "unorthodox" and "extraordinary" bid to get the case tossed after its request for a rapid-fire appeal was denied.

  4. January 03, 2022

    After Chaotic 2021, NCAA Faces Reckoning On Athlete Rights

    The NCAA’s grasp over college sports is slipping as schools begin to embrace athletes commercializing their names, images and likenesses and as a new set of legal challenges over athlete unionization and employment status are coming down the pike. Here’s a look at the key issues that could usher in further change in 2022.

  5. January 03, 2022

    Sports & Betting Cases To Watch In 2022

    The expansion of sports gambling will continue to face roadblocks in state legislatures, and the NCAA could see its legal bills mount as it fights pay-for-play in college sports, according to industry attorneys' predictions for 2022.

  6. October 14, 2021

    NCAA Athletes Want Wage Class Cert., Notice To Thousands

    More than 200,000 college student-athletes could opt in to a federal lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association if a judge approves a request from the proposed lead plaintiffs for the first stage of certification and notice.

  7. October 08, 2021

    Citing NLRB Memo, NCAA Athletes Say No Pay Is 'Offensive'

    The NCAA and private universities cannot dodge a proposed minimum wage class action brought by athletes now that the U.S. Supreme Court and federal labor authorities have made it clear that the lack of pay is "offensive," the athletes told a Pennsylvania federal court Thursday.

  8. September 24, 2021

    Colleges Eye Appeal After Athletes OK'd To Pursue Wage Suit

    Five universities are seeking to immediately appeal a Pennsylvania federal judge's ruling that allowed a proposed class of student athletes to sue for minimum wage pay, arguing Thursday that other courts have clearly held that college players are not employees.  

  9. September 22, 2021

    NCAA Can't Score Dismissal Of Athletes' Wages Suit

    A Pennsylvania federal judge dismissed a proposed wages class action Wednesday filed by college athletes against multiple universities but denied dismissal for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, saying the athletes plausibly alleged the regulatory body is their joint employer under the Third Circuit's four-factor "Enterprise test."

  10. August 26, 2021

    Division I Colleges Can't Shake Athletes' NCAA Wage Suit

    Several National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I colleges can't escape a proposed collective and class action by student athletes claiming they should be considered employees and therefore paid minimum wage, a Pennsylvania federal court has ruled, saying the schools hadn't shown the athletes weren't employees.