Legal Opinion
Berger v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 5, 2016No. 16-1558PublishedCited by 298 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Former student athletes at the University of Pennsylvania (“Penn”) sued Penn, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”), and more than 120 other NCAA Division I universities and colleges alleging that student athletes are employees who are entitled to a minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The district court disagreed. We agree with the district court and hold that student athletes are- not employees and are. not covered by the FLSA.
*289I. Background
Gillian Berger and Taylor Hennig (“Appellants”) are former students at Penn who participated on…
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