Oral arguments began Tuesday in federal court about whether or not the claims former UNC-Chapel Hill athletes made about getting cheated out of a degree are legitimate. UNC-CH claims that the lawsuit should be dropped because the university has sovereign immunity as an entity of the state. Two of the former athletes named the NCAA as a defendant, stating that it failed monitoring UNC-CH to make sure athletes received an adequate education. All of the lawsuits in this scandal accuse UNC-CH of failing to properly educate students and enrolling them into fake classes. Attorneys for UNC-CH and NCAA said the athletes’ claim of not receiving an adequate education will not hold up in court. They also said that the former student-athletes had knowledge they were enrolled in fake classes and did not raise any objections. 

SOURCE: News & Observer