Opinion ID: 195406
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Heading: Application to Sullivan's Personal Damages Claims

Text: 47 Sullivan also claims that the NFL's restrictive rule directly damaged him in his individual capacity, by charging him with an array of expenses arising out of the SMC bankruptcy, including the payment of legal and other professional fees associated with the bankruptcy proceeding itself, lost opportunity to purchase debt at a discounted rate, lost compensation and benefits, and anguish and emotional distress. In that, as the district court found, these damages merely flow from the alleged injuries to SMC, 828 F.Supp. at 120, they are that much further removed from the injuries claimed on behalf of SMC. We therefore conclude, consistent with our conclusion that SMC did not suffer antitrust injury, and that any damages suffered were too indirect and speculative to sustain an action on its behalf, that Sullivan likewise lacks standing to pursue an antitrust action for damages suffered in his individual capacity. 48 The decision of the district court is AFFIRMED.