Appeals Court Rejects Plan To Pay College Athletes

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Publish Date:
October 1, 2015
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KQED
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In this audio clip with KQED, Professor William B. Gould discussed an appeals court decision rejecting plans to pay college athletes. 

There was a split decision today by the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a key case about whether some top college athletes should be paid.

The court said NCAA colleges cannot pay their players beyond the cost of attending the school. The ruling reverses a lower court ruling.

We talk with Stanford law professor emeritus William Gould. He’s the author of “Bargaining With Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil.”

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