Indiana Court Dismisses Ex-Student Athletes’ Antitrust Claim against the NCAA

Nov. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Austin, TX- The latest edition of Sports Litigation Alert reports on how a federal judge from the Southern District of Indiana has dismissed with prejudice the antitrust claim brought by two student athletes against the NCAA, who charged that the association and its members engaged in “a blatant price-fixing agreement and restraint.”

Specifically, plaintiffs Joseph Agnew and Patrick Courtney challenged two of the NCAA's bylaws: “1) the one-year scholarship limit, which prohibits NCAA member institutions from offering multi-year athletics-based discounts to student-athletes (NCAA Bylaw 15.3.3.1), and 2) the cap on the number of athletic-based discounts a school can offer per sport each year (see, e.g., NCAA Bylaw 15.5.4).”

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