Entertainment & Sports
Sep. 22, 2023
Student athletes seek class for suit over their likenesses
The defendants asserted in filings that the class lacks commonality because of “the substantial differences in the value (if any) of the name, image and likeness rights of student-athletes.”
Student athletes asked a federal judge Thursday to approve their class certification in their case against the NCAA and the Power Five college athletics conferences.
Their lawsuit claims that the organizations deprived them of the chance to receive compensation for the use of their names, images and likenesses in video games and to secure television broadcast contracts. The athletes’ counsel, who are from Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, ...
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