Predictably, Ninth Circuit Sides with NCAA, PAC-12 About Whether Athletes Should be Paid as Employees

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the 2017 ruling of a district judge from the Northern District of California, finding that a former University of Southern California football player was not an employee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association or the PAC-12 Conference, and is not owed payment for his work as an athlete while attending the university.   “(Plaintiff Lamar) Dawson cannot demonstrate that the NCAA or the PAC-12 had the power to fire or hire him,” ac