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Sports And The Law: Text, Cases, And Problems, 5th, Stephen Ross, Paul Weiler, Gary Roberts, Roger Abrams Jan 2016

Sports And The Law: Text, Cases, And Problems, 5th, Stephen Ross, Paul Weiler, Gary Roberts, Roger Abrams

Stephen F Ross

This casebook introduces students to the fundamentals of labor, antitrust, and intellectual property law as applied in the professional and amateur sporting industries. It covers the unique office of the league commissioner and special concerns with the “best interests of sports”; the contract, antitrust, and labor law dimensions of the player-labor market; the peculiar institution of the player agent in a unionized industry; the economic and legal implications of agreements among league owners and responses to rival leagues; the system of commercialized college athletics governed by the NCAA and how law impacts individual sports like golf, tennis and boxing; as …

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Labor-Antitrust: The Problems Of Connell And A Remedy That Follows Naturally, Michael J. Cozzillio, Joseph T. Casey Dec 1979

Labor-Antitrust: The Problems Of Connell And A Remedy That Follows Naturally, Michael J. Cozzillio, Joseph T. Casey

Michael J. Cozzillio

Since the passage of the Sherman Act, the Supreme Court has struggled to formulate a test governing labor's exemption from the antitrust laws. Resolution of this issue has required the Court to reconcile two competing and at times diametrically opposed congressional directives without subordinating one to the other. On one hand, the antitrust laws are designed primarily to insure that economic power is diffused among competitors. It is generally believed that the public will benefit, in terms of lower prices and better products, from increased competition in the production and marketing of goods and services and from decreased concentration of …

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