NCAA v. Smith

National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Smith
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 20, 1999 Decided February 23, 1999
Full case name	National Collegiate Athletic Association, Petitioner v. R. M. Smith
Citations	525 U.S. 459 (more) 119 S. Ct. 924; 142 L. Ed. 2d 929; 1999 U.S. LEXIS 1511; 67 U.S.L.W. 4130; 99 Cal. Daily Op. Service 1345; 99 Daily Journal DAR 1669; 1999 Colo. J. C.A.R. 878; 12 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 110
Case history
Prior	Smith v. NCAA, 978 F. Supp. 213 (W.D. Pa. 1997); affirmed in part, reversed in part, 139 F.3d 180 (3d Cir. 1998); cert. granted, 524 U.S. 982 (1998).
Subsequent	Smith v. NCAA, 266 F.3d 152 (3d Cir. 2001)
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681, et seq.

National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Smith, 525 U.S. 459 (1999), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the NCAA's receipt of dues payments from colleges and universities which received federal funds, was not sufficient to subject the NCAA to a lawsuit under Title IX.^[1]