A suit introduced by members of the 1983 North Carolina State University men’s basketball team has introduced “a new category of litigation” that the NCAA will have to address, comments Kate Buck in this Law360 article. The NCAA settled a case aimed at marshaling payments for the names, images and likenesses of athletes whose careers dated mainly in the 2010s, but this new suit illustrates the shortcomings of this effort to right past wrongs. New suits should have been expected, noted Buck, saying “I don’t think it required brilliant analysis to see that it wasn’t going to just make all their problems go away.” She advised that a better approach might be to declare bankruptcy, create a framework for reorganization, and stay litigation “so that forever and ever, things can’t just continue to come out of the woodwork.”
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