NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - Limits on the Name, Image and Likeness market for collegiate athletes likely violate antitrust laws, a federal judge has ruled in a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia.
The lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee seeks to undercut NCAA rules against recruiting inducements and claims the association is “enforcing rules that unfairly restrict how athletes can commercially use their name, image and likeness at a critical juncture in the recruiting calendar.”
The lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee seeks to undercut NCAA rules against recruiting inducements and claims the association is “enforcing rules that unfairly restrict how athletes can commercially use their name, image and likeness at a critical juncture in the recruiting calendar.”
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - A Tennessee federal judge won't change his ruling in a dispute between a personal injury law firm and a man it hired to drum up business because of a one-day delay in one of the firm's filings.