"The deficiencies in the Complaint that are the basis for granting the motion to dismiss are substantive in nature," U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson wrote in the court order, "and nothing in the plaintiff's papers suggests that they could amend the Complaint to overcome these substantive deficiencies.

The eight U.S. universities known as the Ivy League on Thursday won dismissal of a prospective class action by current and former student athletes challenging the schools’ bans on sport scholarships and other compensation for their athletes.

The Ivy League and its eight member schools scored a victory in court on Thursday when a federal judge in Connecticut dismissed a lawsuit accusing their agreement to not provide athletic scholarships and not pay Ivy League athletes compensation of amounting to an antitrust violation.

A judge in the United States District Court of Connecticut has dismissed a claim challenging the conferences longstanding ban on athletic scholarships