February 25, 2021
A California federal judge on Thursday rejected the NCAA's bid to pause discovery in two antitrust suits over student-athlete compensation, finding that pausing the cases while the U.S. Supreme Court takes up related litigation may disadvantage the athletes as their name and likeness rights lose value after graduation.
January 03, 2021
Sports leagues and teams are looking to collect billions of dollars lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic as college athletes seek to chip away at the NCAA's amateurism rules in just some of the high-stakes legal battles set to play out in 2021.
July 02, 2020
Attorneys are set to tackle a number of lingering legal issues in the second half of the year, such as a reexamination of NCAA rules prohibiting college athletes from earning money and novel, pandemic-created disputes including fans demanding refunds for canceled games.
June 15, 2020
College athletes repped by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP slammed the NCAA with a new proposed antitrust class action over student-athlete compensation on Monday, this time taking issue with the organization's rules blocking them from receiving compensation for the use of their name, image and likeness.