NCAA student athletes are entitled to education-related benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for graduate school, tutors, laptops, science equipment, musical instruments, and annual awards for academic achievement up to $5,980.
United StatesAntitrust/Competition Law
NCAA student athletes are entitled to education-related
benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for
graduate school, tutors, laptops, science equipment, musical
instruments, and annual awards for academic achievement up to
$5,980. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for the unanimous
Supreme Court ruling, holding that the now-former NCAA prohibition
for such things violated antitrust laws.
NCAA v. Alston began seven years ago as a class action
against the NCAA brought by Shawn Alston and Justine Hartman as
representatives for a class of former men's and women's
college football and basketball players. They alleged that the
NCAA's limitation on the types and amounts of compensation
student-athletes can receive violates Section 1 of the Sherman
Antitrust Act which prohibits the unreasonable restriction on
competition among the states. The District Court and Ninth Circuit
both resolved that there was an antitrust violation when applying
the
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