In re National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation: Ninth Circuit Affirmed the Decision of the District Court

By Christian Dennie   In March 2014, while the NCAA was litigating O’Bannon I, FBS football and D1 men’s and women’s basketball players filed several antitrust actions against the NCAA and eleven D1 conferences that were transferred to and, with one exception, consolidated before the same district court presiding over O’Bannon I. Rather than confining their challenge to rules prohibiting NIL compensation, the Student-Athletes sought to dismantle the NCAA’s entire compensation fram