Attorneys from Cooley and Mayer Brown have stepped in as defense counsel to the PAC-12 Conference and the Big Ten Conference in a pending antitrust class action. The complaint, pertaining to NCAA member schools offering education-related compensation, was filed April 4 in California Northern District Court by Winston & Strawn and Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro on behalf of current and former Division I college athletes whose claims were not litigated in a 2019-related lawsuit. The complaint accuses the defendants of agreeing to price-fix players' compensation to exclude academic achievement awards. The Southeast Conference is represented by Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, is 4:23-cv-01593, Hubbard et al v. National Collegiate Athletic Association et al.

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