O'Bannon v. NCAA

rdf:langString O'Bannon v. NCAA

rdf:langString O'Bannon v. NCAA

rdf:langString Cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 277

rdf:langString Motion for attorneys' fees granted, No. 4:09-cv-03329, 2016 WL 1255454 , affirmed, 739 F. App'x 890

rdf:langString Edward C. O’Bannon, , Jr., On Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, aka The NCAA

rdf:langString O'Bannon v. NCAA, 802 F.3d 1049 (9th Cir. 2015) was an antitrust class action lawsuit filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The lawsuit, which former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon filed on behalf of the NCAA's Division I football and men's basketball players, challenges the organization's use of the images and the likeness of its former student athletes for commercial purposes. The suit argues that upon graduation, a former student athlete should become entitled to financial compensation for NCAA's commercial uses of their image. The NCAA maintains that paying its athletes would be a violation of its concept of amateurism in sports. At stake are "billions of dollars in television revenues and licensing fees." On August 8, 2014, District Judge Claudia Wilken found for O'Bannon, holding that the NCAA's rules and bylaws operate as an unreasonable restraint of trade, in violation of antitrust law. The Court said it would separately enter an injunction regarding the specific violations found. In September 2015, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, in part, and reversed, in part, the District Court's ruling. In March 2016, O'Bannon's lawyers appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court denied certiorari on October 3, 2016.

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