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California's Miller-Ayala Act and the O.J. Mayo Situation

By Rick Karcher, Michael McCann, Geoffrey Rapp, Greg Skidmore, and Howard Wasserman

Most states have a statute regulating agents that is modeled after the Uniform Athlete Agents Act. The one in California is not based upon that model, but section 18897.6 of the California Business and Professions Code does seem to apply to the Mayo allegations:
?18897.6. No athlete agent or athlete agent's representative or employee shall, directly or indirectly, offer or provide money or any other thing of benefit or value to a student athlete.?

The USC Trojans website actually contains a link to the Miller-Ayala Act at http://usctrojans.cstv.com/genrel/usc-agent-page.html.

I wonder if anyone in the California Office of the Secretary of State is looking into this.

Full post as published by Sports Law Blog on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).