In a notable ruling, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals determined that college athletes can be considered employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This decision emerged from a legal discourse contrasting previous interpretations by other circuit courts. Judge Restrepo, writing for the court, stated, “We disagree with our sister circuit court’s comparison of college athletes to prisoners and refuse to equate a prisoner’s involuntary servitude, as authorized by the Thirteenth Amendment, to ‘the long-standing tradition’ of amateurism in college athletics.”
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