NCAA Loses Last-Minute SCOTUS Bid to Halt Athlete Pay Ruling (2)

The NCAA lost a bid Tuesday to temporarily reinstate caps on education-related compensation for college athletes while it prepares a Supreme Court appeal of a ruling striking down the limits.

Justice Elena Kagan denied the association’s 11th hour bid for an emergency stay preventing the court order from taking effect as scheduled Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which upheld the injunction in May, rejected a similar request a week earlier.

The Ninth Circuit’s May 18 ruling upheld a California federal judge’s decision preserving the ban on outright pay for athletes but invalidating limits on education-related ...