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Keeping Them Down On The Farm: The Possibility Of A Class Action By Former Minor League Baseball Players Against Major League Baseball For Allowing Steroid Abuse, Patrick S. Baldwin Jan 2009

Keeping Them Down On The Farm: The Possibility Of A Class Action By Former Minor League Baseball Players Against Major League Baseball For Allowing Steroid Abuse, Patrick S. Baldwin

Georgia Law Review

Over the past five years, allegations and admissions of steroid abuse by professional baseball players have tarnished the image of "Our National Pastime." Although the players are ultimately responsible for using performance-enhancing drugs, they are not solely to blame. Major League Baseball and its franchise owners knew about the abuse and did nothing to stop it-mostly because the threat to home run records had begun refilling the seats that had been lost from the 1994-1995 labor strike. But this steroid scandal has called into question many of those new records and caused outrage among the media, the fans, and even …


Nonprofits And Narrative: Piers Plowman, Anthony Trollope, And Charities Law, Jill R. Horwitz Jan 2009

Nonprofits And Narrative: Piers Plowman, Anthony Trollope, And Charities Law, Jill R. Horwitz

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What are the narrative possibilities for understanding nonprofit law? Given the porous barriers between nonprofit law and the literature about it, there are many. Here I consider two. First, nonprofit law and nonprofit literature are each enriched and made fully explicable by reference to the other. Nonprofit law has grown in parallel with literature. It may even be that important legal texts, texts about doing and being good, were imported directly from literary sources into law. Second, in writings ranging from sensational journalism to high literature, nonprofit laws and the scandals involving their violations have captured the public imagination for …