TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jan 19, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice and four additional jurisdictions have joined the multistate bipartisan antitrust lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which was filed in December by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and attorneys general in six other states. Skrmetti's office reports that the additional parties include the states of Minnesota, Mississippi and Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The lawsuit challenges the NCAA’s transfer eligibility rule as an illegal restraint on college athletes’ ability to sell their image and likeness and control their education. The rule requires that college athletes who transfer a second time among Division I schools must wait one year before competing in games.