al jazeera jamie floyd is here in new york. this case in massachusetts is stunning. they basically ruled a guy who was taking pictures up women's illegal. >> yes, there were two reasons. the pictures were taken in public, a place you don't have reasonable inspection of privacy, and the women and there are only two documented, but the women were not undoctorsed. they were not naked or partially nude. and the peeping tom law requires you be in a dressing room or a place of privacy. so the specificity of the law, violated. >> couldn't the judge have looked at the peeping judge law and said "hey, the intention of law is". >> you are asking if they could go with the spirit of the law. this happened in the state of washington, the same issue, upskirting, and the court ruled the same way. judges are not supposed to make law, but interpret it. it's a cry out for the legislature to make a law that fits modern times and technology. this law is only 10 years old, iphones five years old. that's how quickly the world is changing. this court made it clear that they didn't like tha

only in big time college sports is that line drawn, unquote, here is what al jazeera jamie floyd hasabout kessler's case. >> this is significant first of all because he is representing a class of students, a class of athletes, a class of what he claims are professionals, the top tier football players across the country, the division one basketball players as we go into march madness, he says they should be treated as professionals, not as amateur athletes in what has become a multi-billion dollar business, that is the first reason why there is significant. the class action. number two it's significant because he is bringing it as an antitrust case and treating the ncaa not as an association, not as an athletic association as it wants to be treated but as a monopoly and wants to crush the monopoly under the antitrust laws and he is going after it as a big business so that is what makes this a major and significant case. dovetailing with all of the other actions we have seen over the course of the last several years. >> reporter: well switching gears to nfl and the colts owner is in bi

earlier i asked al jazeera legal contributor jamie floyd how significant this is, regarding can compensation for student athletes and how does it differ? >> it's very significant first of all because of those previous lawsuits. this is sort of a culmination of what's been building i think for last decade maybe more. this is significant first of all because he's representing a class of students, a class of athletes, a class of what he claims are professionals, the top tier football players across the country, the division 1 basketball players as we go into march madness, potentially thousands of athletes did you think about -- if you think about student athletes across the country although this class represents the football and bubble players. he says they should be treated as professionals not as amateur athletes in what has become a multibillion dollar business. that is the significance of the class action. number 2 mike it is significant because he is bringing it as a an antitrust action. he's treating the ncaa as a monopoly. he wants to crush this under the antitrust laws and going after