NCAA NIL Litigation: Class Is in Session

By Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Several phrases likely give NCAA officials shivers. “Name, Image, and Likeness” rights (“NIL”) is one. Judge Claudia Wilken is another. The two together are a nightmare for the NCAA. It happened again when Judge Wilken certified three separate classes of plaintiffs in cases filed by past and present NCAA Division 1 student-athletes against the NCAA, the Pacific-12, the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Southeastern, and the Atlantic Coast Conference(s), (“Power