Fight On? Student-Athletes Press for Employee Status Despite Seventh Circuit Rejection

By Jonathan L. Israel, of Foley & Lardner LLP   Bong ... Bong ... Bong ... that is the death knell you thought you heard following the decision from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (covering Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin) in Berger v. NCAA earlier this month. After that case, many legal prognosticators proclaimed the demise of student-athletes’ claims that they are actually employees of their colleges and universities, and thus, entitled to wages for their athletic services under