Ivy League Tells Federal Judge to Dismiss Athletic Scholarship Antitrust Case

Ryan Rodenberg* In a six-page motion filed on May 15, 2023, the Ivy League Council of Presidents—along with Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale—moved to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit for “failure to state a claim” (p. 1).  The Ivy League’s motion was accompanied by a lengthy legal memorandum refuting claims made two months earlier in a proposed class action complaint alleging a “price-fixing agreement…not to provide athletic scholarships�