National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston

National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston American Athletic Conference v. Alston
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 31, 2021 Decided June 21, 2021
Full case name	National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Shawne Alston, et al. American Athletic Conference, et al. v. Shawne Alston, et al.
Docket nos.	20-512 20-520
Citations	594 U.S. ___ (more) 141 S. Ct. 2141 210 L. Ed. 2d 314
Case history
Prior	Judgment for plaintiffs, In re Nat'l Collegiate Athletic Ass'n Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litig., 375 F. Supp. 3d 1058 (N.D. Cal. 2019) Affirmed, 958 F.3d 1239 (9th Cir. 2020) Cert. granted (Dec. 16, 2020)
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett
Case opinions
Majority	Gorsuch, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Kavanaugh
Laws applied
Sherman Act

National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston, 594 U.S. ___ (2021), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the compensation of collegiate athletes within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It followed from a previous case, O'Bannon v. NCAA, in which it was found that the NCAA was profiting from the namesake and likenesses of college athletes. The case dealt with the NCAA's restrictions on providing college athletes with non-cash compensation for academic-related purposes, such as computers and internships, which the NCAA maintained was to prevent the appearance that the student athletes were being paid to play or treated as professional athletes. Lower courts had ruled that these restrictions were in violation of antitrust law, which the Supreme Court affirmed in a unanimous ruling in June 2021.