Bloomberg Law
Feb. 21, 2018, 3:26 PM UTC

NCAA Attorneys Should Be Sanctioned, Former Student Athlete Says

Former Villanova University football player Poppy Livers is hoping a federal court will allow his legal play in an ongoing struggle in which student athletes demand to be treated as employees entitled to pay. A motion filed Feb. 20 accuses the National Collegiate Athletic Association of misleading the court in order to escape paying student athletes.

Federal courts have already dismissed suits brought by student athletes demanding wages in the Seventh Circuit and in the Northern District of California. In both cases, the courts decided that student athletes aren’t employees within the meaning of the Fair Labor Standards Act ...

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