NCAA’s Motion to Dismiss Granted in Agnew Case
By Christian Dennie
The NCAA successfully defended the Agnew multi-year scholarship litigation by obtaining a motion to dismiss with prejudice. The NCAA alleged that Plaintiffs had three deficiencies in their pleadings before the Court: 1) failure to plead a relevant market; 2) failure to allege facts sufficient to show that the NCAA’s alleged wrongdoing has injured competition as a whole in the relevant market; and 3) failure to allege facts connecting the NCAA rules at issue to their