A court victory for student-athletes; Tokyo will allow Olympics spectators.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of student-athletes; Tokyo will allow Olympics spectators. Tonight's Sentences was written by Gabby Birenbaum. SCOTUS rules against the NCAA Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images - For years, NCAA athletes have been unable to profit from the benefits their star power generates for their colleges. A new Supreme Court ruling found that the policy violates antitrust law, a landmark decision in an ongoing fight for student-athletes' rights. [WSJ / Brett Kendall and Louise Radnofsky]
- In a rare 9-0 ruling, the Court found that the NCAA's rule denying colleges the ability to provide education-related benefits to men's and women's basketball players and football players violated antitrust laws, forming a monopoly in which individual schools and conferences could not attract players through such benefits. [ESPN]
- As a result of the ruling, the NCAA cannot ban schools from offering scholarships, internships, or educational equipment such as computers. A conference or school could still set policies banning such practices, but those schools would then be at a disadvantage when competing for the commitment of a player. [Washington Post / Robert Barnes]
- In the majority opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the NCAA was engaging in "horizontal price fixing in a market where the defendants exercise monopoly control," and then asking for an exception to the Sherman antitrust laws that such a practice violates. [CNBC / Tucker Higgins]
- In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh went even further in describing the NCAA's violations, opening the door for a wider legal argument that could be used when the issue of student-athlete pay comes up. He rejected the NCAA's claim that its entire product is defined by the notion that its workers do not earn a fair market rate. [CNN / Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster]
- Meanwhile, the issue of whether to pay any student-athlete whose name, image, or likeness is used in universities' promotional content is tantamount to a different court case, which asks for the NCAA's rule to be rejected and for damages based on the compensation athletes would have received. [USA Today / Steve Berkowitz]
- More than a dozen states have already passed laws that allow student-athletes to be paid for the use of their name, image, or likeness from other sources, seven of which go into effect in July. Though they could still face NCAA penalties for doing so, the current legislative and judiciary environment makes a rule change, either by choice or by law, possible. [NBC News / Pete Williams]
Tokyo Olympics to have spectators - The Olympic organizing committee has announced that venues for the Tokyo Olympics will host spectators at 50 percent capacity, with an upper limit of 10,000 fans, during this summer's games. [Washington Post / Simon Denyer]
- Only domestic spectators are allowed; overseas spectators were banned in March due to concerns over the coronavirus. However, the organizing committee reserves the right to cancel spectatorship if the situation worsens or if the Japanese government declares an emergency. [NYT / Ben Dooley and Makiko Inoue]
- Last week, a group of infectious disease experts in Japan published a report regarding minimizing risk at the Olympics and recommended having no spectators as the option with the least amount of risk. [CNN / Carly Walsh, Emiko Jozuka, and Ben Church]
- But the decision to include spectators underscores the International Olympic Committee's and Japan's resolve to hold the games despite scientific concern over the potential for an outbreak in Japan, where the vaccination rollout has been slow. [Reuters / Chris Gallagher, Antoni Slokowski, and Daniel Leussink]
- The Olympics are set to begin on July 23. [WSJ / Alastair Gale]
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops voted to draft a new policy that would allow individual bishops to prevent Catholic politicians who uphold abortion rights — such as President Joe Biden — from receiving the Eucharist. [Vox / Cameron Peters]
- A group of actors, including George Clooney and Kerry Washington, are founding a public school in Los Angeles for underserved students to receive job opportunities and training in the film and television industry. [Variety / Jordan Moreau]
- Live Audio Chats, Facebook's competitor to the audio social platform Clubhouse, launches in the US today. [The Verge / Bryan Menegus and Ashley Carman]
- Champ, the 13-year-old German shepherd belonging to Joe and Jill Biden, died over the weekend. [BuzzFeed News / Clarissa-Jan Lim]
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