NCAA Ruling Clears Path For More Antitrust, Labor Brawls

Los Angeles-based Antitrust Group partner, Jason C. Murray, discusses a California federal judge's ruling that the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) ban on paying elite football and men's basketball players broke antitrust laws could incite anti-competition suits from other divisions and sports teams in the NCAA. Murray argues that the decision could spur challenges under Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in athletics programs that receive federal funding. "That could be the next big issue in these cases, since the ruling could open up larger 'scholarship' opportunities for men than women athletes, raising the specter of unequal treatment under Title IX," said Murray.