Supreme Court Will Review NFL Antitrust Case

The NFL hopes the court will expand its lower-court victory by making all professional sports leagues immune from antitrust laws; "Sports Law" contributor John T. Wolohan offers an opinion about the league's chances of victory.

Having beaten an apparel company that tried to muscle in on its league-wide licensing agreement with a competing apparel company, the National Football League decided to take its already-won fight to the rest of the corporate world. In an unusual move, the NFL, with the backing of the National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association, convinced the United States Supreme Court to hear its vanquished foe's appeal - in the apparent hopes that the court will expand the NFL's victory before the Seventh Circuit by making all professional sports leagues immune from antitrust laws.

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