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Volume 123 Issue 1 Article 4 September 2020 "But They're Already Paid": Payments In-Kind, College Athletes, "But They're Already Paid": Payments In-Kind, College Athletes, and the FLSA and the FLSA Sam E. Ehrlich Boise State University College of Business and Economics Follow this and additional works at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr Part of the Education Law Commons, and the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons Recommended Citation Recommended Citation Sam E. Ehrlich, "But They're Already Paid": Payments In-Kind, College Athletes, and the FLSA, 123 W. Va. L. Rev. 1 (2020). Available at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr/vol123/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the WVU College of Law at The Research Repository @ WVU. It has been accepted for inclusion in West Virginia Law Review by an authorized editor of The Research Repository @ WVU. For more information, please contact [email protected].

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Page 1: But They're Already Paid': Payments In-Kind, College

Volume 123 Issue 1 Article 4

September 2020

"But They're Already Paid": Payments In-Kind, College Athletes, "But They're Already Paid": Payments In-Kind, College Athletes,

and the FLSA and the FLSA

Sam E. Ehrlich Boise State University College of Business and Economics

Follow this and additional works at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr

Part of the Education Law Commons, and the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons

Recommended Citation Recommended Citation Sam E. Ehrlich, "But They're Already Paid": Payments In-Kind, College Athletes, and the FLSA, 123 W. Va. L. Rev. 1 (2020). Available at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/wvlr/vol123/iss1/4

This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the WVU College of Law at The Research Repository @ WVU. It has been accepted for inclusion in West Virginia Law Review by an authorized editor of The Research Repository @ WVU. For more information, please contact [email protected].

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