{"id":5675,"date":"2010-05-24T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:28:35","slug":"scotus-slaps-down-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/24\/scotus-slaps-down-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS slaps down NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NFLIn a unanimous vote, the Supreme Court<\/a> denied<\/a> the National Football League<\/a> its goal of broad protection from antitrust suits.\u00a0 The high court ruled on a case involving a license for making souvenir caps and sent to back to a lower court to further consideration allegations by a smaller company that challenged the league’s 10-year exclusive deal with Reebok<\/a>.\u00a0 Law<\/a> Professor Keith Hylton<\/a>, an authority on antitrust law, says it is understandable that the court would be reluctant to expand the “single entity” concept to include the NFL. \u00a0Meantime, Sports Journalism <\/a>Professor Frank Shorr<\/a> says this could be the “watershed moment.”<\/p>\n

Keith Hylton:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“\u2018Single entity\u2019 status implies exemption from Section 1 of the Sherman Act, and the Court is reluctant to create broad exemptions to Section 1 when the effects may not be entirely clear.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Contact: Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Frank Shorr:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It will be interesting to see if the court now expands it’s view of the National Football League’s long-standing policies. \u00a0Today it’s hats. Tomorrow, who knows — uniforms, helmets, wrist bands — anything that they can make a profit on and not have to share. \u00a0We could be looking back on this decision in the not-to-distant future and saying, that was the watershed moment.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Contact: Frank Shorr, 617-353-5163, fshorr@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a unanimous vote, the Supreme Court denied the National Football League its goal of broad protection from antitrust suits.\u00a0 The high court ruled on a case involving a license for making souvenir caps and sent to back to a lower court to further consideration allegations by a smaller company that challenged the league’s 10-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2900,637,2477,2961,2935,2626,2896,2962,2898,765,2899,2963,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}