NCAA Denied Injunction Stay Over Education-Related Benefits

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan today "denied the NCAA’s request for a stay of an injunction that will end association-wide limits on education-related benefits" for college athletes. Barring the NCAA’s ability to "convince U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken to change the injunction’s effective date, Kagan’s ruling sets the stage for at least one recruiting cycle in which schools will be able to decide on a conference-level basis whether to allow offers to football, men’s basketball and/or women’s basketball players that go beyond covering the full cost of attending." The injunction said that it would "take effect 90 days after Wilken’s ruling," but that if the NCAA appealed, it "would not take effect until after an appellate court issued a formal order mandating that the injunction go forward" (USA TODAY, 8/11).