California High School Athlete’s NIL Challenge Tossed

A former California high school football and track star’s antitrust lawsuit challenging the state’s rules governing payment for students’ name, image, and likeness was dismissed by a federal court Friday.

Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ruled that Dominik Calhoun failed to show that there was a plausible national market for California high school student athlete NIL, and she said Calhoun lacks standing. But she allowed him to re-file and amended complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

“The plaintiffs do not plausibly explain why high-school athletes’ NIL is not reasonably interchangeable with the NIL of high-school ...