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Sports and Antitrust
The BCS: Antitrust Goes Bowling?
But, is the BCS an antitrust violation? Or, alternatively, does the BCS result in anticompetitive harm that requires legislation to remedy?
Assessing the Antitrust Case Against the Bowl Championship Series
Does the BCS violate U.S. antitrust laws and is it vulnerable to an antitrust challenge?
The Single Entity Battle Continues: American Needle and the Seventh Circuit’s Hybrid Approach
Courts have long struggled to articulate a coherent or sensible approach to applying the Sherman Act to sports leagues…The Seventh Circuit recently added to the morass with its decision in American Needle.
Are Professional Sports Leagues Single Entities Incapable of Conspiring in Violation of the Sherman Act?: The Supreme Court Ponders Whether to Decide the Issue in American Needle v. NFL
Those who are disgruntled by the actions of a sports league thus have little difficulty couching their grievance as a contract, combination, or conspiracy that triggers Section 1 scrutiny.
Of Current Interest
Predatory Pricing after linkLine and Wanadoo
This raises the question: When it comes to predatory pricing, is the EU from Venus, and the United States from Mars? The answer is not
