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Already flanked by numerous lawsuits brought by former college athletes, the National Collegiate Athletic Association may soon face yet another antitrust class action.
Last week, Durrell Chamorro, a former football player at Colorado State University, filed a class action seeking damages for football players who were affected by the NCAA's longstanding rule banning multiyear scholarships. Since 1973, athletic scholarships were only allowed to be offered on a year-to-year basis. Chamorro's lawyer hopes to consolidate the class action with another lawsuit already filed before the rules were finally changed in 2012. That lawsuit was filed by John Rock, a former quarterback at Gardner-Webb University.
The timing of Chamorro's lawsuit to the recent ruling in an antitrust class action led by Ed O'Bannon is no coincidence. The lawsuit cites the ruling seven times, CBS Sports reports. In that case, a federal judge ruled that the NCAA violated antitrust laws when it prohibited sharing revenue with football and basketball players for the use of their names and likenesses.
