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Jul 19, 2025, 07:25 AM ET
A national justice successful Ohio has dismissed a suit seeking compensation for thousands of erstwhile Ohio State athletes from the NCAA.
In her ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge Sarah Morrison said erstwhile Ohio State backmost Terrelle Pryor filed his projected people enactment against the NCAA, Ohio State, the Big Ten and others excessively late.
Pryor, who played for Ohio State from 2008 to 2010, sued the NCAA and different defendants successful October, accusing them of violating antitrust instrumentality by barring members of the school's sports teams from seeking to nett from the commercialized usage of their names, images and likenesses.
Plaintiffs mostly look a four-year model to bring claims nether U.S. antitrust law.
"Mr. Pryor knew the worldly facts underlying his antitrust claims agelong earlier the four-year limitations play had run," Morrison said.
The NCAA successful a connection welcomed the judge's ruling and said "we are hopeful that further copycat cases volition spot the aforesaid outcome."
Ohio State and attorneys for the plaintiff did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
Pryor said successful the suit that the NCAA and others person continued to marque wealth from the usage of his name, representation and likeness done videos and different broadcasts.
Former USC moving backmost Reggie Bush filed a akin lawsuit against the university, the NCAA and the Pac-12 successful September, arsenic a fig of erstwhile Michigan stars against the NCAA and Big Ten.
Morrison ruled that Ohio State arsenic a nationalist schoolhouse and limb of the authorities was immune from the lawsuit.
The NCAA this twelvemonth revamped its rules implicit compensation for assemblage athletes, agreeing for the archetypal clip to let schools to wage students directly.
As portion of the landmark settlement, the enactment agreed to wage $2.8 cardinal to compensate thousands of existent and erstwhile athletes since 2016 for the commercialized usage of their names, images and likenesses.
Reuters contributed to this report.
