Aldrich v. NCAA—Further Procedural Hurdles Prevent Former Student-Athlete Sex Abuse Victims from Successfully Filing Suit against the NCAA
By Adrienne M Arlan and Geoffrey A. Leskie, of Segal McCambridge
In September 2020, citing the “interests of justice,” the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that a lawsuit filed in the Court by multiple current and former student athletes against, inter alia, the NCAA and the NCAA Board of Governors (collectively, the “NCAA”) needed to be transferred to the Southern District of Indiana as the California Court did not have personal jurisdiction