Are Student-Athletes Employees? NCAA Faces Another Legal Challenge

By Tyler O’Hara   The National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) faces another legal challenge to its amateurism model as former student-athlete Lamar Dawson filed a class action complaint on September 26th, 2016 in the Northern District of California. A former University of Southern California linebacker, Dawson’s complaint accuses the NCAA and the Pacific-12 Conference (“PAC-12”) of violating federal and state worker-protection laws. Specifically, the class action seeks