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Quote: Originally Posted by Jeff George

The case is officially Ed O'Bannon v. the NCAA and CLC. It's an antitrust case that claims "the NCAA has organized, maintained, and operated an illegal horizontal cartel consisting of its member schools and conferences, additionally facilitated by Defendant CLC. The cartel has collectively and illegally conspired to limit and depress the compensation of former student-athletes for continued use of their images to zero." EA Sports is listed as a "co-conspirator" in the complaint, not a defendant. Someone with actual legal chops could probably draw a clearer distinction as to what that all means. But no, EA is not the one being directly sued here.

Correct defendant is the wrong word because since its technically an antitrust issue the target is to prove that they were part of the effort to set the player's likeness worth without consulting the player.