NCAA changes: NLRB, lawsuits and mounting legal challenges

The National Labor Relations Board is in the midst of two cases involving college athletes.

In New Hampshire , Dartmouth basketball players cleared the first major hurdle toward joining a union.

In Los Angeles , the NLRB will resume a similar trial on behalf of football and basketball players at USC .

The NCAA is already fighting existing court cases and lobbying Congress for national rules.

A judge denied a request to remove the NCAA 's NIL restrictions while the case is pending.

A separate battle to declare college athletes as employees is underway in Philadelphia .

State lawmakers are chipping away at NCAA 's ability to enforce NIL -related rules.

The NCAA has tried to fend off state laws by asking Congress for a uniform federal law that establishes that athletes should not be employees.