Gustafson Gluek Files Suit Against The NCAA For Price Fixing

Gustafson Gluek PLLC has filed a suit with co-counsel Coleman & Horowitt, LLP, Kirby McInerney LLP, and The Law Offices of Leonard B. Simon P.C. against the NCAA for engaging in a conspiracy in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act to set assistant coaches’, designated as “volunteer” coaches, wages at $0.  

The lawsuit claims that the NCAA’s rule prohibiting member schools from paying certain coaches amounts to illegal  price fixing. The NCAA has recently abandoned the rule, effective July 1, 2023, but the suit seeks to recover past damages suffered by coaches who were required to work for no pay and to restrain the NCAA from re-instituting the rule.

The suit seeks to represent a class of similarly situated people in the U.S. who worked for an NCAA Division I sports program, other than baseball, in the position of volunteer coach as designated by the NCAA Bylaws.

For more information please view the complaint or contact us.