Supreme Court rejects NCAA appeal of O’Bannon case

Supreme Court rejects NCAA appeal of O’Bannon case - The Washington Post:
"The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear the NCAA’s appeal of the Ed O’Bannon case, leaving in place lower court rulings that found amateurism rules for big-time college basketball and football players violated federal antitrust law.
The justices on Monday rejected the appeal in a class-action lawsuit originally filed by O’Bannon, a former UCLA basketball star, and other athletes.
...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.
...In 2014, a U.S. district judge decided the NCAA’s use of names, images and likenesses of college athletes without compensation violated antitrust law.
Judge Claudia Wilken ruled schools could — but were not required to — pay football and men’s basketball players up to $5,000 per year.
The money would go into a trust and be available to the athletes after leaving college.
Wilken also ruled schools could increase the value of the athletic scholarship to meet the federal cost of attendance figure for each institution."