Federal Judge Refuses to Dismiss Action Seeking to Classify Student-Athletes as Employees

By Gregg E. Clifton and John G. Long, of Jackson Lewis A case that may signal the continued erosion of the amateur status of college student-athletes will continue as the action in Ralph “Trey” Johnson et al. v. NCAA has survived the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint. U.S. District Court Judge John Padova allowed the six student-athlete plaintiffs’ claims against Villanova, Fordham, Sacred Heart, Cornell and Lafayette to proceed as he concluded th