Marc Edelman, a law professor at Baruch College in New York, said even if Dartmouth prevails in its attempts to stop the players from unionizing, it is unlikely to set a precedent to stop similar movements at higher-profile, revenue-generating college sports programs.
Dartmouth men's basketball team votes to unionize
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Marc Edelman, a professor of law at Baruch College in New York, said Washington has a “track record of involving itself in ... sports that extends upwards of 100 years” — citing President Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts to examine the safety of college football in the early 1900s through congressional inquiries in the 1950s into Major League Baseball's antitrust exemptions to hearings in the 2000s on steroid use.
Congress intervention into NFL, Washington investigation not unheard of
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