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Dive Transient:

  • The 8 Ivy League establishments have violated antitrust rules by not awarding athletic scholarships, in accordance to a course motion lawsuit filed Tuesday by present and former Brown College basketball gamers.
  • Athletes allege the Ivy League universities’ arrangement constitutes selling price repairing. For decades, the Ivy League has only furnished will need-based monetary help to college students, like athletes. This deal is illegal and disadvantages athletes who otherwise could have pursued scholarships to address their tuition and service fees, the lawsuit says.
  • With out this agreement, the Ivy League institutions would make competing delivers for athletic scholarships, the lawsuit alleges. 

Dive Insight:

The lawsuit is challenging all of the Ivy League institutions, as nicely as the Ivy League Council of Presidents, which coordinates their athletics.

The plaintiffs allege the colleges’ constraints “are no diverse, as a make any difference of law” than all those struck down in a 2021 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in NCAA v. Alston. The higher court observed the NCAA had infringed on antitrust legislation by profiting off the title, image and likeness of athletes.