O Bannon Case Analysis
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A federal court has decided to strike down a plan to pay college athletes, because they are students and not professional athletes (Russo 2015). The 9th U.S Court appeals that the NCAA uses college's athletes likeness in video games, and TV broadcast (Russo 2015). Judge Jay Bybee discusses that, “The difference between offering student-athletes education-related compensation and offering them cash sums untethered to educational expenses is not minor; it is a quantum leap.” The NCAA had appealed U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken's 2014 decision in the O'Bannon case to allow players in the top division of college football, and men's basketball to be paid for use of their names, images and likeness (Russo 2015). The money the student athletes