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Litigation

Nov. 12, 2013

Federal judge partially certifies class in NCAA player likeness case

A federal judge on Friday certified a class of all current and former Division I college football players who claim the National Collegiate Athletic Association conspired to profit off the use of their names and likenesses.

By Hadley Robinson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A federal judge on Friday certified a class of all current and former Division I college football players who claim the National Collegiate Athletic Association conspired to profit off the use of their names and likenesses. But U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California denied certification of a subclass seeking damages, saying the plaintiffs did not identify how they were uniformly harmed by the al...

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