Sports and the law
Subtitle: examining the legal evolution of America's three "major leagues"
By: by Peter A. Carfagna
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: American casebook series
Publisher: Thomson/West
Published: 2011
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780314275868
Subjects: Major League Baseball (Organization); Sports franchises; Professional sports; National Basketball Association; Professional sports contracts; Law and legislation; National Football League; Cases; Antitrust law
Table of contents: title: The moral integrity of the sport : the role of the Commissioner and the law; title: Constructing a player's market from contract to antitrust law : the "legal evolution of the uniform player contract"; title: The baseball "trilogy" : Flood v. Kuhn and the creation of the baseball antitrust exemption; title: The creation of the "non-statutory labor exemption" and its application to the NFL and NBA; title: Age eligibility rules; title: MLB collective bargaining agreement issues : free agency and collusion; title: Collective bargaining and intellectual property disputes regarding player, team, and league rights; title: Franchise relocation and stadium "naming rights agreements" : the MLB territorial antitrust exemption lives on.