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The Curt Flood Act Of 1998: A Hollow Gesture After All These Years?, Edmund P. Edmonds
The Curt Flood Act Of 1998: A Hollow Gesture After All These Years?, Edmund P. Edmonds
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This article discusses the Curt Flood Act of 1998 and explores the nonstatutory labor exemption the Supreme Court has applied to professional sports leagues. It also explores the likely impact of the Curt Flood Act on the rights of players or managers to use antitrust laws effectively against one another.
Reconsidering Flood V. Kuhn, Stephen F. Ross
Reconsidering Flood V. Kuhn, Stephen F. Ross
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Within the academia, two very different groups of legal scholars have devoted a great deal of attention to Flood v. Kuhn. Those specializing in sports law have either attached Flood as a ridiculous decision that improperly distinguished between baseball and other professional sports, or have praised it for waging guerrilla warfare on the idea that Section 1 of the Sherman Act should apply to intra-league arrangements by owners of the professional sports teams. Those viewing Flood through the lens of statutory interpretation perceive the decision as adhering rigidly to the principle of stare decisis; this rigidity has been …