Who Got the Work: NCAA Announces Defense Team in WDNY Hockey Players Antitrust Class Action

"Plaintiffs and the class allege that Defendants' anticompetitive conduct has caused them to sell their labor for below-competitive prices, to lose out on valuable athletic scholarships, and to be excluded from Division I," according to the allegations in the amended complaint against the NCAA. "Such injuries are plainly of the type the antitrust laws were intended to prevent."

September 27, 2024 at 03:49 PM

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Antitrust

By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman

What You Need to Know

Goldberg Segalla and WIlkinson Stekloff represent the NCAA in this complaint filed by Freedman Normand Friedland and Berger Montague.
The amended antitrust class action names the NCAA and 10 Division I member schools as defendants.
Phillips Lytle and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer represent the defendant colleges.

Goldberg Segalla and Wilkinson Stekloff have lined up to represent the National Collegiate Athletic Association in an amended lawsuit accusing the NCAA of prohibiting a class of athletes from playing Division I men's ice hockey in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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