Corporate & Securities Law

Antitrust, Single Entities, and the NFL

By David Fischer

On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit released a very interesting opinion in American Needle v. National Football League.  In short, the Court found that NFL teams constitute a single entity “when collectively licensing their intellectual property.”  For a lengthy analysis of the case, check out the Sports Law Blog (and especially the back and forth in the comments between that blog’s Gabe Feldman and Rick Karcher).

Full post as published by Antitrust Review on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).