Seven States Sue NCAA in Antitrust Suit

Published on December 8, 2023

A coalition of seven states has filed a groundbreaking antitrust lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Attorney Generals from Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia filed the suit in West Virginia’s North District this week, challenging the NCAA’s authority to enforce a one-year delay in eligibility for athletes transferring between schools as a violation of the Sherman Act. The Sherman Act is a federal statute in U.S. antitrust law that prohibits monopolistic practices and aims to promote fair competition across various industries. The NCAA’s transfer eligibility rule “imposes a one year delay in the eligibility of certain college athletes transferring between NCAA member institutions and unjustifiably restrains the ability of these college athletes to engage in the market for their labor as NCAA Division I college athletes,” the lawsuit alleges....

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