As states’ 2020 legislative sessions continue to open, state legislators continue to file new college athletes name, image, and likeness bills similar to the bill that was passed in California last year. These laws would allow college athletes in the relevant states to be paid by third parties for the use of their names, images,
Arizona recently joined the list of states with a pending bill that would allow college athletes to be paid for the use of their name, image, and likeness. The number of states with pending bills now stands at seventeen, and the NCAA is also planning to propose its own rules on the issue. The Arizona
Collegiate esports are booming. When the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE), the institutional association of varsity esports programs for U.S. colleges and universities, was formed in July of 2016 only seven schools had varsity esports programs. Three and a half years later, NACE now has over 170 member schools. And those schools have awarded
Advocacy for Fairness in Sports, a non-profit dedicated to providing access and analysis of sports law cases and investigative sports journalism, has included Kennyhertz Perry attorney Mit Winter on its list of Top 100 sports law twitter accounts to follow for 2020. Mit regularly tweets about sports law issues, with an emphasis on college sports
Kennyhertz Perry attorney Mit Winter has been named Chair of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Sports and Entertainment Law Committee. This is Mit’s second stint as Chair of the committee. He also served as chair when he founded the committee several years ago. As chair, Mit will be in charge of planning events and
Kennyhertz Perry attorney Mit Winter has been appointed as Regional Captain in the states of Kansas and Missouri for the Sports Lawyers Association’s (“SLA”) Outreach Committee. As a regional captain, Mit will assist with the facilitation and organization of SLA Outreach Events that promote the SLA and its member benefits, allow for networking opportunities, and
Kennyhertz Perry’s Mit Winter was quoted in an article regarding California’s new law allowing college athletes to be paid for the use of their name, image, and likeness. “Law Firm Kennyhertz Perry has what I think is a reasonable possible prediction: By using the term “tethered to education” in its release, it’s clear that any
As it continues to move closer to becoming law, SB 206, the pending California bill that would allow college athletes to be compensated for the use of their names, images, and likenesses (NILs), has been amended. Specifically, yesterday’s amendment states that an athlete cannot enter into a contract that provides compensation for the use of
In a development that likely hinders the NCAA’s ongoing investigations into several high-profile men’s basketball programs, a federal judge has denied the NCAA’s request seeking certain materials gathered by the FBI during its college basketball investigation and used during the subsequent trial. The NCAA was seeking 24 trial exhibits and an unredacted copy of a
Whether college athletes should be able to be paid by third parties (such as a shoe company like Nike) for the use of their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) has become a popular topic in the college athletics world. Much of the discussion surrounding the issue arose after the NCAA announced it was creating a
The NCAA announced yesterday that it has formed a working group to examine issues related to college athletes receiving benefits for the use of their name, image and likeness (“NIL”). The formation of the working group was prompted by recent federal and state legislative proposals that would allow college athletes to receive payment for their
In February 2017, the NCAA and the 11 FBS conferences settled a class action lawsuit relating to the NCAA’s previous limit on athlete compensation. The $208.7 million settlement, part of the Alston case, resolved damages claims brought by scholarship athletes in football and men’s and women’s basketball who claimed that the NCAA’s then limit on
