National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Muhammed Lasege and University of Louisville

Lasege (plaintiff), a Nigerian recruit who had entered professional basketball contracts in Russia compromising his amateur status, enrolled at the University of Louisville (U.L.) (plaintiff) but was declared ineligible by the NCAA (defendant), which refused reinstatement despite U.L.'s argument that Lasege had not known his Russian compensation violated NCAA rules; the NCAA's Subcommittee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement affirmed the ineligibility finding. Lasege and U.L. sued in state court seeking a temporary injunction reinstating his eligibility, the trial court granted it, Lasege played the 2000-2001 season under that injunction, and after the court of appeals affirmed, the NCAA appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court, also challenging the trial court's invalidation of NCAA Bylaw 19.8 (allowing the NCAA to seek restitution from member schools that let ineligible athletes compete under later-vacated court orders).