(Reuters) - A federal judge ordered the NCAA to pay nearly $46 million in attorneys' fees and costs to lawyers for student-athletes including former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon in their class-action antitrust lawsuit against the organization.
The decision late Monday night by U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins came nearly a year after U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland, California said the NCAA violated antitrust law by barring athletes from sharing in revenue from the use of their names and images in broadcasts and video games.
In awarding the athletes' lawyers 90 percent of the $50.