Supreme Court backs payments for student-athletes

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday unanimously ruled the NCAA could not bar some payments to student-athletes.

The decision involves payments and other benefits related to education, but it could set up a challenge to an NCAA rule barring student-athletes from being paid for their participation in sports.

“Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion. “And under ordinary principles of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different. The NCAA is not above the law.”

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