AAU joined ACE and nine other higher education associations to file an amicus brief in NCAA v. Alston, asking the United States Supreme Court to overturn a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling finding that the NCAA’s eligibility rules regarding compensation of student-athletes violate federal antitrust law. The brief makes three key points: universities are not commercial, profit-seeking entities; judicial micromanagement is inconsistent with the educational mission that underlies athletics; and NCAA self-governance comports with principles of institutional self-governance that have long characterized American higher education
The Supreme Court will hear arguments March 31 and is expected to make a decision by July.