Lawsuit over Ivy League sport scholarship ban dismissed

A federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit from current and former student athletes who challenged the Ivy League’s ban on sport scholarships, Reuters reported.

The lawsuit, filed last year, argued that Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell Universities, Dartmouth College, and the University of Pennsylvania illegally conspired to limit financial aid by banning athletic scholarships—a policy the plaintiffs said amounts to price fixing and denies athletes proper compensation.

Connecticut U.S. District Judge Alvin Thompson wrote that the plaintiffs failed to establish an antitrust violation and show the league’s policies harmed competition. The plaintiffs can appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.