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).








