United States Department of Education v. National Collegiate Athletic Association

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The University of the District of Columbia is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and as such subject to its rules. A violation of an NCAA rule can impose heavy costs should it result in the imposition of sanctions on the violator. Typical sanctions, such as banning the violator from postseason competition or re- dueing its athletic scholarships, make a school less successful in postseason play, upon which the school’s share of the television and other media revenues that the NCAA obtains and doles out to its members primarily depends.

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