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Entertainment & Sports,
Civil Litigation

Jun. 25, 2021

Judge won’t toss suit over NCAA barring students from profits

The players seek to overturn association-wide rules that limit how much money they can make from their names, images and likenesses and get back potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from TV rights contracts.

A federal judge in Oakland refused Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the NCAA's restrictions on student-athletes profiting from their fame and sharing in money generated by the television rights to college sports.

The players seek to overturn association-wide rules that limit how much money they can make from their names, images and likenesses and get back potentially hundreds of millions of dollars from TV rights contracts....

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