September 19, 2025
In this week's Off The Bench, the U.S. Supreme Court receives initial briefs from West Virginia and Idaho regarding their bans on gender identity-based participation in school sports, Kalshi is taken to court by another state over its event contract offerings, and Washington, D.C.'s National Football League team takes a major step toward returning to its namesake city.
September 17, 2025
A California federal court approved a $49 million settlement between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and 1,000 Division I volunteer baseball coaches that resolves an antitrust dispute stemming from a now repealed bylaw that allegedly prevented the coaches from receiving market value wages.
May 01, 2025
A California federal judge granted preliminary approval Wednesday to a group of roughly 1,000 Division I volunteer baseball coaches for their settlement under which the NCAA would pay $49.5 million to resolve their proposed antitrust class action challenging a since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw.
March 25, 2025
A group of Division I volunteer baseball coaches has asked a California federal court to sign off on a proposed settlement under which the NCAA would pay $49.25 million to roughly 1,000 coaches to resolve their proposed antitrust class action challenging a since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw.
March 12, 2025
A California federal judge on Tuesday certified a class of potentially thousands of former NCAA Division I volunteer coaches who allege the athletic organization's now-repealed bylaw illegally suppressed their wages in violation of antitrust laws, and the judge also refused to exclude the class's damages report by a Princeton University professor.
February 03, 2025
The NCAA and a group of Division I volunteer baseball coaches have reached a settlement "in principle" to end a proposed antitrust class action that challenged the organization's since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw that prevented volunteer coaches from getting compensated market value for their services.
November 04, 2024
Division I volunteer baseball coaches asked a California federal judge to certify their proposed antitrust class action challenging the NCAA's since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw that paid volunteer coaches nothing, which prevented them from getting compensated their market value for their services.
July 28, 2023
A California federal judge has refused to toss or transfer proposed antitrust class actions by college volunteer coaches over the NCAA's now-defunct rules prohibiting Division I volunteer coaches from being paid, finding the claims are sufficiently pled and the NCAA hasn't shown litigating in California is inconvenient.
May 10, 2023
A California federal judge on Wednesday granted the NCAA's request to delay a hearing on its motion to dismiss a proposed antitrust class action filed by two college baseball coaches, ruling that it is "appropriate" to delay the case until it can be heard with a separate but related case.
April 06, 2023
A pair of former assistant college baseball coaches defended their case alleging that NCAA rules blocked them from earning salaries, contending the NCAA never learned its lesson from a case 25 years ago involving caps on coach pay.