U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken has denied a request from the NCAA to dismiss two class-action antitrust claims that continued the attack on compensation limits for student-athletes.
The two claims, both filed in March 2014, claim the value of an individual student-athlete had been illegally capped at the value of an athletics scholarship because of an agreement (i.e., NCAA legislation) between NCAA members.
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The first claim, Jenkins v. NCAA, headed by Jeffrey Kessler, claims if compensation for football and men’s basketball student-athletes at the Power 5 conferences wasn’t illegally capped, some would be able to receive offers in excess of what is permissible under NCAA legislation.