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NCAA legislation will continue to be attacked under antitrust law

The NCAA has been challenged once again under Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

This time, the antitrust claim, challenges the number of football scholarships an NCAA Division I program may offer in a given year and the NCAA's restriction of Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football players from being able to transfer to another FBS institution without sitting out a season of competition.

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The lawsuit, Deppe v. NCAA , was filed in U.