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IN RE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Nos. 19-15566, 19-15662.

958 F.3d 1239 (2020)

IN RE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ATHLETIC GRANT-IN-AID CAP ANTITRUST LITIGATION. Shawne Alston; Martin Jenkins; Johnathan Moore; Kevin Perry; William Tyndall; Alex Lauricella; Sharrif Floyd; Kyle Theret; Duane Bennett; Chris Stone; John Bohannon; Ashley Holliday; Chris Davenport; Nicholas Kindler; Kendall Gregory-McGhee; India Chaney; Michel'le Thomas; Don Banks, "DJ"; Kendall Timmons; Dax Dellenbach; Nigel Hayes; Anfornee Stewart; Kenyata Johnson; Barry Brunetti; Dalenta Jameral Stephens, "D.J."; Justine Hartman; Afure Jemerigbe; Alec James, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, The NCAA; Pacific 12 Conference; Conference USA; The Big Ten Conference, Inc.; Mid-American Conference; Southeastern Conference; Atlantic Coast Conference; Mountain West Conference; The Big Twelve Conference, Inc.; Sun Belt Conference; Western Athletic Conference; American Athletic Conference, Defendants-Appellants, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.; CBS Broadcasting, Inc.; ESPN Enterprises, Inc.; ESPN, Inc.; Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC.; Fox Sports Holdings, LLC.; Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Intervenors. In re National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation, John Bohannon; Justine Hartman, as representatives of the classes, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, The NCAA; Pacific 12 Conference; Conference USA; The Big Ten Conference, Inc.; Mid-American Conference; Southeastern Conference; Atlantic Coast Conference; Mountain West Conference; The Big Twelve Conference, Inc.; Sun Belt Conference; Western Athletic Conference; American Athletic Conference, Defendants-Appellees, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.; CBS Broadcasting, Inc.; ESPN Enterprises, Inc.; ESPN, Inc.; Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC.; Fox Sports Holdings, LLC.; Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 18, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seth P. Waxman (argued), Leon B. Greenfield , Daniel S. Volchok , David M. Lehn , and Kevin M. Lamb , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Bart H. Williams , Scott P. Cooper , Kyle A. Casazza , Jennifer L. Jones , and Shawn S. Ledingham Jr. , Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, California; Leane K. Capps and Caitlin J. Morgan , Polsinelli PC, Dallas, Texas; Amy D. Fitts , Polsinelli PC, Kansas City, Missouri; Mark A. Cunningham , Jones Walker LLP, New Orleans, Louisiana; Beth A. Wilkinson and Brant W. Bishop , Wilkinson Walsh & Eskovitz LLP, Washington, D.C.; Sean Eskovitz , Wilkinson Walsh & Eskovitz LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jeffrey A. Mishkin and Karen Hoffman Lent , Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, New York; Robert W. Fuller III , Pearlynn G. Houck , and Lawrence C. Moore III , Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson P.A., Charlotte, North Carolina; Mark J. Seifert , Seifert Law Firm, San Francisco, California; Andrew J. Pincus , Charles A. Rothfeld , and Richard J. Favretto , Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, D.C.; Britt M. Miller and Andrew S. Rosenman , Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Meryl Macklin , Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, San Francisco, California; Richard Young and Brent E. Rychner , Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Benjamin C. Block , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.; R. Todd Hunt and Benjamin G. Chojnacki , Walter Haverfield LLP, Cleveland, Ohio; D. Erik Albright and Gregory G. Holland , Fox Rothschild LLP, Greensboro, North Carolina; Jonathan P. Heyl , Fox Rothschild LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina; Charles L. Coleman III , Holland & Knight LLP, San Francisco, California; for Defendants-Appellants.

Steve Berman (argued), Craigh R. Spiegel , and Emilee N. Sisco , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, Washington; Jeffrey L. Kessler (argued), David G. Feher , and David L. Greenspan , Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, New York; Bruce L. Simon and Benjamin E. Shiftan , Pearson Simon & Warshaw LLP, San Francisco, California; Elizabeth C. Pritzker , Jonathan K. Levine , Bethany L. Caracuzzo , and Shiho Yamamoto , Pritzker Levine LLP, Oakland, California; Linda T. Coberly , Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Sean D. Meenan and Jeanifer E. Parsigian , Winston & Strawn LLP, San Francisco, California; for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Maurice M. Suh , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Andrew S. Tulumello and Nick Harper , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae National Football League Players Association and National Basketball Players Association.

Bradley S. Pauley , Horvitz & Levy LLP, Burbank, California, for Amicus Curiae National Federation of State High School Associations.

Emma Rebhorn , Change to Win, New York, New York; Sandeep Vaheesan , Open Markets Institute, Washington, D.C.; Najah A. Farley , National Employment Law Project, New York, New York; for Amici Curiae Open Markets Institute, Change to Win, National Employment Law Project, and Economics and Law Professors.

Concurrence by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.

OPINION

We consider an appeal and cross-appeal from an order enjoining the National Collegiate Athletic Association (the "NCAA") from enforcing rules that restrict the education-related benefits that its member institutions may offer students who play Football Bowl Subdivision ("FBS") football and Division I ("D1"...

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