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US: Top court rejects NCAA appeal

By  |  October 3, 2016

The Supreme Court is not touching previous court rulings that found the NCAA’s amateurism rules for big-time college basketball and football players violated federal antitrust law.

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    The justices on Monday rejected the NCAA’s appeal in a class-action lawsuit originally filed by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon and other athletes. The court also rejected O’Bannon’s separate appeal that called on the justices to reinstate a plan to pay football and basketball players.

    The effect of the high-court action is to leave the NCAA vulnerable to more legal challenges that are working their way through the courts.

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