NCAA Hit With Another Lawsuit Seeking Pay for Athlete’s Play (3)

College student-athletes are employees who are entitled to pay just like their fellow students in work-study programs, according to a proposed class action filed Nov. 6 in a federal court in Pennsylvania.

Ralph “Trey” Johnson, who played collegiate football at Villanova University before going pro, sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association and about two-dozen universities that are either located in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania or compete against schools there. The NCAA and the universities are joint employers who misclassified the student-athletes in violation of state and federal wage law, Johnson said.

The NCAA’s amateurism rules have endured a series ...