The lawsuit seeks treble damages for a class of current and former Ivy League athletes (going back to March 7, 2018) and an injunction to end the Ivy League Agreement and any similar contract, combination, or conspiracy by the Defendants. The Complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. The Ivy League has no justifications for its agreement that can withstand judicial scrutiny-if the court is willing to entertain such purported justifications at all. The Ivy League Agreement constitutes the kind of price fixing that the courts have condemned as per se illegal, allowing for no justification and The Ivy League universities' restrictions on competition for their collegiate athletes are no different, as a matter of law, than the restrictions formerly imposed by the NCAA on athletic scholarships that the Supreme Court in 2021 unanimously struck down as an antitrust violation in NCAA v. The Ivy League universities engage in unfettered competition, including with regard to pay, for their respective officers, faculty members, employees, and even graduate students, yet they agree not to provide athletic scholarships or compensate or reimburse collegiate athletes for their athletic services More specifically, the lawsuit alleges that:

The Ivy League is the only NCAA Division-I athletic conference that prohibits, by agreement among its member schools, athletic scholarships and forbids the compensation or reimbursement of collegiate athletes for their athletic services. The lawsuit alleges that this agreement constitutes unlawful price fixing in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The suit alleges that under the 'Ivy League Agreement,' the Ivy League schools agree not to award athletic scholarships nor compensate or reimburse education-related expenses incurred by the approximately 8,000 Ivy League student athletes each year for their athletic services.

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