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May 01, 2025
NCAA Coaches Get Initial OK For $49M Wage-Fix Deal
A California federal judge granted preliminary approval Wednesday to a group of roughly 1,000 Division I volunteer baseball coaches for their settlement under which the NCAA would pay $49.5 million to resolve their proposed antitrust class action challenging a since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw.
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March 25, 2025
NCAA Baseball Coaches Ask Court To OK $49M Wage-Fix Deal
A group of Division I volunteer baseball coaches has asked a California federal court to sign off on a proposed settlement under which the NCAA would pay $49.25 million to roughly 1,000 coaches to resolve their proposed antitrust class action challenging a since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw.
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March 12, 2025
NCAA Volunteer Coaches Get Class Cert. In Antitrust Fight
A California federal judge on Tuesday certified a class of potentially thousands of former NCAA Division I volunteer coaches who allege the athletic organization's now-repealed bylaw illegally suppressed their wages in violation of antitrust laws, and the judge also refused to exclude the class's damages report by a Princeton University professor.
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February 03, 2025
NCAA Settles College Baseball Coaches' Wage-Fix Suit
The NCAA and a group of Division I volunteer baseball coaches have reached a settlement "in principle" to end a proposed antitrust class action that challenged the organization's since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw that prevented volunteer coaches from getting compensated market value for their services.
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November 04, 2024
NCAA Baseball Coaches Seek Class Cert. In Wage-Fix Case
Division I volunteer baseball coaches asked a California federal judge to certify their proposed antitrust class action challenging the NCAA's since-repealed "uniform wage fix" bylaw that paid volunteer coaches nothing, which prevented them from getting compensated their market value for their services.
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July 28, 2023
NCAA Can't Ax, Transfer Volunteer Coaches' Antitrust Suits
A California federal judge has refused to toss or transfer proposed antitrust class actions by college volunteer coaches over the NCAA's now-defunct rules prohibiting Division I volunteer coaches from being paid, finding the claims are sufficiently pled and the NCAA hasn't shown litigating in California is inconvenient.
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May 10, 2023
Calif. Judge Grants NCAA Delay On Wage-Fixing Suit
A California federal judge on Wednesday granted the NCAA's request to delay a hearing on its motion to dismiss a proposed antitrust class action filed by two college baseball coaches, ruling that it is "appropriate" to delay the case until it can be heard with a separate but related case.
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April 06, 2023
'Volunteer' Baseball Coaches Defend NCAA Wage-Fixing Case
A pair of former assistant college baseball coaches defended their case alleging that NCAA rules blocked them from earning salaries, contending the NCAA never learned its lesson from a case 25 years ago involving caps on coach pay.
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November 30, 2022
NCAA Accused Of Wage Fixing By 'Volunteer' Coaches
The National Collegiate Athletic Association was hit with a proposed antitrust class action on Tuesday alleging that the organization has conspired with member schools to illegally fix the聽number of assistant coaches Division I baseball聽teams may employ, thus setting聽compensation of additional "volunteer" coaches at zero.