The recent development in the longstanding legal feud between the NCAA and college athletes over Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights, reached another landmark with the Ninth Circuit blocking the NCAA’s appeal of class certification. This blockade potentially puts the NCAA at risk of having to pay upwards of $4 billion in compensation to college athletes, should they be mandated by the court.
This latest turn of events came about when the Ninth Circuit sided with a lower court’s decision to maintain the certification of classes in the ongoing NIL rights lawsuit. The pending compensation casts a shadow of “devastating consequences” over the NCAA, as warned by the organization itself.
A detailed breakdown of this latest development can be found in the original report by Elaine Briseño on Law360.