On June 13, 2016, a group of student-athletes locked in an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA called out several major collegiate athletic conferences for their reluctance to share documents concerning lucrative television contracts. They claim several conferences have failed to produce essential documents during a discovery dispute which began in March of this year. According to the student-athletes, the Big Ten and Atlantic Coast conferences have refused to even discuss document requests.
The student-athletes, whose class action lawsuits have been consolidated in multidistrict litigation in …
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