Court Grants Stay in O'Bannon Case
Source: New York Times
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday granted a stay of a federal judges ruling last year in the so-called OBannon case, which found that N.C.A.A. rules preventing athletes from making money off college sports broadcasts and video games violated antitrust law.
The stay is at least a temporary reprieve for the N.C.A.A. and its decades-old rules barring payments to athletes. Without it, the association would have faced a new reality on Saturday in which colleges theoretically could have offered recruits unregulated money, or the association could have set an unprecedented cap on such compensation.
...The sides argued the case in March in front of the Ninth Circuit, with the N.C.A.A. contending a ruling for the players would professionalize its amateur athletes and hurt its business model. The association requested the stay earlier this month. Whether granting the N.C.A.A. a temporary reprieve portends a decision in its favor is unclear.
...Both Hausfeld and the N.C.A.A. president, Mark Emmert, have said they plan to appeal OBannons case to the Supreme Court, if necessary. Fridays stay did nothing to alter that trajectory, said Matthew Mitten, Director of the National Sports Law Institute.
Its such an important issue, I think its eventually headed to the Supreme Court, he said.
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NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)But tuition money should be banned.
TexasProgresive
(12,161 posts)and they pay out of that their tuition, bed and board. Seems fair to me. They also have to take real courses and make at least a 2.8 GPA to represent the school as an athlete. Or better yet universities and colleges just get out of the sports business. Ginormous State University Texas A & M is completing a new stadium projected cost of $450 million.