NY Times · Sep 30, 2015
Court Rules N.C.A.A. ‘Is Not Above Antitrust Laws’
Photo Though legally a dispute over antitrust law, the O'Bannon case has come to embody a broader debate about whether college athletes should be compensated. Credit Jamie Sabau/Getty Images A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld on Wednesday a federal judge’s finding last year that the N.C.A.A. “is not above antitrust laws” and that its rules have been too restrictive in maintaining amateurism. But the panel threw out the judge’s proposal that N.C.A.A. members should pay athletes $5,000 per year in deferred compensation, stating that compensation for the cost of attendance was sufficient.