It’s a case that could become momentous in sports law history: The lawsuit filed by several former college athletes in which they claim they deserve to make money from the commercial use of their names and images on television and in video games, just as their professional brethren do. Picture a world in which former Duke University basketball star Christian Laettner gets paid every time CBS runs a promo featuring the image of him running down the court, arms raised and mouth agape, after his famous buzzer-beater against the University of Kentucky.
That’s the world Ed O’Bannon, a star basketball player at UCLA in the mid-1990s who is now a car salesman, wants to be living in, and O’Bannon’s lawyers at Hausfeld and their cocounsel at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro took the first huge step in that direction on February 8, when their suit survived summary judgment motions. (O’Bannon’s suit has been with a similar action brought by onetime Nebraska and Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller.)
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