West Virginia AG's office announces 'major win for college athletes' against NCAA

A proposed consent judgement has been submitted in a lawsuit against the NCAA that challenged the league's Transfer Eligibility Rule, the office of West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced on Thursday, calling it a "major win" for college athletes. 

W.V. and other states sued the NCAA in December to permanently bar the association from enforcing its transfer rule.
 
The consent agreement still has to be approved by U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey. According the W.V. AG, the agreement removes what the coalition of 10 states "views as an illegal restraint on the athletes’ ability to market their labor and control their education."
 
The transfer eligibility rule requires "athletes who transferred among Division I schools to wait one year before competing in games unless they were granted a waiver" and the NCAA began "automatically exempting first-time transfers from the regulation," according to Morrisey's office.

“This a great victory for not only RaeQuan, but for all student-athletes burdened by the flawed NCAA transfer rule,” said Morrisey. “The NCAA needs to enact consistent, logical and defensible rules that are fair and equitable for everyone.”

His office also said in a press release that the NCAA "continued to enforce the rule for subsequent transfers and to deny waivers for no legitimate reason."