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NCAA gets student athletes' US antitrust claims dismissed

( April 28, 2025, 16:22 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The National Collegiate Athletics Association was granted its motion to dismiss 16 former college athletes’ US antitrust claims due to timeliness. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer found that plaintiffs’ claims are untimely and otherwise precluded as a matter of law. “[T]he NCAA’s use today of a [name, image, and likeness] acquired decades ago as the fruit of an antitrust violation does not constitute a new overt act restarting the limitations clock. Instead, as the NCAA argues, the contemporary use of a NIL reflects performance of an aged agreement: a contract between the student-athlete and the NCAA under which it acquired footage and images of the plaintiff,” Engelmayer said. See attached file. ...

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