Attorney Seeks and Gets Assurance that Current Student-Athletes Added to O’Bannon Case Will Be Protected

Earlier this month, Federal Judge Claudia Wilken ruled that attorneys representing Ed O’Bannon and other former student-athletes in an antitrust action against the NCAA involving college athletes' names, images and likenesses, may add current student-athletes to the class.   This ruling led plaintiffs’ attorney Michael Hausfeld of Hausfeld LLP to seek assurances from the NCAA that neither the association, nor its member schools, would seek retribution against current athletes seeking to