‘Co-Conspirators’ Beware: Where the College Athlete NIL Litigation Stands And What Might Happen Next

By Dan Cohen and Priscilla Szeto, of Nelson Mullins Just a few weeks after the NCAA lost the Alston case 9-0 at the U.S. Supreme Court and thereafter issued its interim NIL policy on July 1, 2021 to voluntarily suspend its NIL rules, the Plaintiffs’ attorneys were back again.   By July 26, 2021, the Plaintiffs’ attorneys from Alston had already filed an amended class action complaint alleging that the NCAA’s prior NIL rules violated antitrust law by inhibiting student-athle