Panel Affirms District Court’s Dismissal of Antitrust Claim against NCAA; Law Firms Weigh In

The 7th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss the antitrust claims of two student athletes, who alleged that the NCAA-imposed limitations on the number of scholarships given per team and that the rules against multi-year scholarships violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act.   The panel’s decision was based primarily on the fact that the plaintiffs -- Joseph Agnew of Rice University and Patrick Courtney of North Carolina A&T — did not identify â€