Overview

• Superior Court Judge Mark A. Davis ruled the Cardiac Pack’s claims untimely under state law and preempted by the federal Copyright Act.
• Twelve members of NC State’s 1983 national championship team filed the suit in June 2024 seeking “reasonable compensation” for decades of unauthorized NIL use.
• The lawsuit alleged the NCAA systematically profited from archival game footage featuring Lorenzo Charles’s buzzer-beater and coach Jim Valvano’s celebration.
• The dismissal follows a similar court rejection of a former Kansas player’s NIL lawsuit earlier this year.
• Lawyer Stacy Miller praised the Cardiac Pack players for challenging exploitation of student-athletes and standing up in the fight for NIL justice.