Antitrust, Single Entities, and the NFL

On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit released a very interesting opinion in American Needle v. National Football League.  In short, the Court found that NFL teams constitute a single entity “when collectively licensing their intellectual property.”  For a lengthy analysis of the case, check out the Sports Law Blog (and especially the back and forth in the comments between that blog’s Gabe Feldman and Rick Karcher).

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