Grant House's attorneys turned NCAA president Charlie Baker's recent proposal to pay college athletes directly against him in a motion for summary judgement.
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The judge's ruling means that the the NCAA can't enforce any restrictions on NIL activities until the conclusion of a case fighting those restrictions.
The NCAA, which represents some 1,100 schools and more than 500,000 athletes, is no stranger to lawsuits. It has been in court off and on since the early 1980s defending the amateur athlete model at the heart of college athletics. House vs. the NCAA is a class-action lawsuit in the Northern District of California before Judge Claudia Wilken, whose previous rulings in NCAA cases paved the way for college athletes to profit from their fame and for schools to direct more money into their hands.
No stranger to antitrust lawsuits, the NCAA closed out 2023 with a temporary restraining order (TRO) from the Northern District of West Virginia enjoining.