On Friday, June 6, 2025, Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved the landmark settlement in the House v. NCAA class action suit (the “House settlement”). The House settlement will fundamentally shift the economics of college athletics, allowing schools to pay Division I players directly and ending the long-standing amateurism model.1 The settlement also allows former student-athletes, who did not have the opportunity to profit off t...
