California High School Sports Group Hit With Athlete’s NIL Claim

The regulatory authority overseeing high school sports in California was sued in federal court by an athlete who alleged the organization’s unlawful rules deprived him of pay for his name, image, and likeness.

The California Interscholastic Federation’s policies artificially fix the price that high school student-athletes are compensated for their NIL “at zero,” plaintiff Dominik Calhoun said in a proposed class action filed May 30 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

CIF is a Sacramento-based nonprofit group whose members include more than 1,600 public and private high schools in California. Other defendants include 2080 Media ...