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Pay for play is dead, but the NCAA may die as well: U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear NCAA antitrust, O’Bannon appeals

Roll 'Bama Roll | October 4, 2016

Related Topics: Appeal, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Labor Relations Board, Trade union, Stalking horse, Competition law, Certiorari, Collective bargaining, Supreme Court of the United States, Lawsuit

The pay-for-play stalking horse known as the O’Bannon litigation has finally come to a close as the Supreme Court denied certiorari in two separate appeals arising from that case. This means that the Court has declined to review the ruling of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That 2015 lower court ruling is now the law of the land.

Let’s rewind.

O’Bannon Trial

In August 2014, Judge Claudia Wilkins heard O’Bannon’s antitrust case against the NCAA concerning compensation for the use of his and other collegiate athletes’ likeness in a series of video games.

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