Thursday
May272010
Michael McCann "What the Supreme Court's antitrust ruling means to the NFL"
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 06:11AM 
In an unsurprising and unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held today that the NFL and its independently owned teams are subject to Section 1 of the Sherman Act when entering into licensing contracts. The decision in American Needle v. NFL, which reverses a previous ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, effectively ends the NFL's decades-long quest for immunity from Section 1, the leading source of antitrust law in professional sports.
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