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The NCAA, Pac-12 and USC are pushing to get former USC running back Reggie Bush’s lawsuit dismissed. Bush is seeking past name, image and likeness compensation. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
The NCAA, Pac-12 Conference and USC are seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by former Trojan star running back Reggie Bush on the grounds that his claims of antitrust violations and lost name, image and likeness compensation from his Heisman-winning tenure at USC come “at least a decade and a half too late.”
Bush filed the lawsuit in September, alleging that his school, its former conference and the sport’s governing body had all “profited from uncompensated use” of his NIL during and after his dazzling tenure at USC “without compensating Bush one penny.” In a news release announcing the lawsuit, Bush’s attorneys claimed he should be paid “to address and rectify ongoing injustices stemming from the exploitation of Reggie Bush’s name, image and likeness during his tenure as a USC football player.”
But in filings this week with the Los Angeles Superior Court, attorneys for the NCAA, Pac-12 and USC set out to dismantle those claims, arguing that Bush’s “effort to wind back the clock” should be barred by the statute of limitations, which is typically four years in antitrust cases. Bush last played at USC in 2005.
“Any such claims accrued no later than 2005, meaning that his suit comes at least a decade and a half too late,” the NCAA’s attorneys wrote. “And while [Bush] gestures at several exceptions to the statutes of limitations [in his lawsuit], he offers no well-pleaded allegations showing a plausible entitlement to any of them.”
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Author : LA Times
Publish date : 2024-12-13 22:42:00
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