"Supreme Court says it will hear case challenging NCAA’s athlete-compensation rules"
"The Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will hear an appeal from the NCAA and 11 of its top-level conferences in a case that challenges the association’s restrictions on the compensation athletes can receive for playing college sports.
The justices’ decision to take the case adds a momentous element of uncertainty to an enterprise that has been shaken by state and Congressional legislative efforts concerning not only athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness, but also the fairness of their overall treatment by the schools for which they help generate billions of dollars annually.
“I think it would be hard to overstate the potential significance of it for a number of reasons, primarily because it is so rare for the Supreme Court to hear any cases involving the sports industry, much less college sports,” Gabe Feldman, director of the Tulane Sports Law Program and Tulane University's associate provost for NCAA compliance, said in an interview last week. “And then, in this case, particularly to hear a challenge to the NCAA amateurism rules.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2020/12/16/supreme-court-hear-case-ncaa-athlete-compensation/3894835001/
"The Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will hear an appeal from the NCAA and 11 of its top-level conferences in a case that challenges the association’s restrictions on the compensation athletes can receive for playing college sports.
The justices’ decision to take the case adds a momentous element of uncertainty to an enterprise that has been shaken by state and Congressional legislative efforts concerning not only athletes’ ability to make money from their name, image and likeness, but also the fairness of their overall treatment by the schools for which they help generate billions of dollars annually.
“I think it would be hard to overstate the potential significance of it for a number of reasons, primarily because it is so rare for the Supreme Court to hear any cases involving the sports industry, much less college sports,” Gabe Feldman, director of the Tulane Sports Law Program and Tulane University's associate provost for NCAA compliance, said in an interview last week. “And then, in this case, particularly to hear a challenge to the NCAA amateurism rules.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2020/12/16/supreme-court-hear-case-ncaa-athlete-compensation/3894835001/
