Additionally this year, we will see high school athletes in court after their rights to compensation were allegedly denied last January. Cases like these will be heard in Florida and the District of Columbia.
An associate attorney at Akerman LLC, who is familiar with government and collegiate affairs, had this to say, “Is this the line we’re going to stay at, or will we see movement on what the student-athlete can and cannot do?” Jamel A.R. Greer said, “adding that with the shifts in the college football landscape and the continued fight for equity for women athletes, the decisions in the NIL cases “will be a game-changer.”
The cases are In re: College Athlete NIL Litigation, case number 4:20-cv-03919, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; Pennsylvania State University v. Vintage Brand LLC, case number 4:21-CV-01091, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; and Stewart et al. v. Florida High School Athletic Association Inc. et al., case number 2022-427-CA-01, in the Circuit Court for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida.
