Inside the NCAA’s Doping Appeals Process – Amani Elijah Bledsoe v. NCAA

By Paul J. Greene and Matthew D. Kaiser   On August 24, 2017, Amani Elijah Bledsoe, a defensive lineman for the University of Oklahoma, filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma state court against the NCAA, challenging the denial of his NCAA doping appeal.[1] The lawsuit asks for a finding from the court in the form of a declaratory judgment that the NCAA wrongly denied Mr. Bledsoe’s internal doping appeal by violating his substantive and procedural due process rights under Oklahoma law. Mr. Bledsoe a