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Congress Considers the StarCaps Case

By Rick Karcher, Michael McCann, Geoffrey Rapp, Greg Skidmore, and Howard Wasserman

A Congressional hearing was held today regarding whether to amend the Labor Management Relations Act in order to protect professional sports leagues' performance enhancing drug policies from being attacked under state law. The hearing was held in response to the 8th Circuit's recent decision in Williams v. NFL (i.e., the "StarCaps" case), and featured testimony from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of labor relations, and Michael Weiner, the MLBPA's general counsel. Sports Law Blog's Gabe Feldman is quoted in the New York Times' report on the hearing. Meanwhile, Paul Secunda, a professor at the Marquette University Law School, has posted some thoughts regarding the hearing and the Williams case over at PrawfsBlawg.

For more on the Williams case, see Gabe's prior posts on the litigation, as well as the thoughts of Willamette law professor Jeffrey Standen at the Sports Law Professor Blog.

Full post as published by Sports Law Blog on November 03, 2009 (boomark / email).