In Bench Trial Over Compensation of NCAA Athletes, It's All Business
A case with the potential to open the door for schools in top echelons of college football and men's and women's basketball to compensate student-athletes got underway Tuesday in U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken's courtroom in Oakland.
September 04, 2018 at 07:33 PM
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The class-action lawsuit challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association's limits on compensating student-athletes in top echelons of college football and men's and women's basketball got underway Tuesday in U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken's courtroom in Oakland.
For a case with potentially dramatic consequences—especially for schools among the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC, the so-called “Power 5″ sports conferences to whom the plaintiffs want to shift the burden for setting limits of player compensation—the trial will be short on trial theater and heavy on technical details. Both sides made opening statements in the bench antitrust trial via filings lodged with the court in the run-up to Labor Day weekend.
The plaintiffs' team, which includes Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro's Steve Berman, Winston & Strawn's Jeffrey Kessler and Bruce Simon of Pearson, Simon & Warshaw, fended off a defense attempt to knock the case out on summary judgment in March when Wilken found that they had produced “undisputed evidence” that student-athletes would be offered greater compensation and benefits during recruitment but for NCAA limits.
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