2 Fascinating Articles
The first is in Forbes which has this great article about the antitrust lawsuits that the NCAA has faced and is facing. A good portion of the article is spent on the settlement of the lawsuit brought by the NIT’s owners, the MIBA:
Buying the NIT allowed the NCAA to keep its monopoly going for the time being, even if the deal made little sense from a competitive standpoint, since the NIT has hardly been an economic threat to the NCAA in recent years. Its television rights money is a tiny fraction of the nearly half-billion dollars CBS pays to televise the NCAA championships each year. Statistics on its Web site show that about 90% of the NCAA’s 2005-06 projected revenue comes from television and marketing rights, with the bulk of that coming from the men’s basketball tournament. Meanwhile, don’t expect to find many basketball fans filling out 32-team NIT brackets this week.
The second is from the Kansas City Business Journal. The article is about gubernatorial canidate Dennis Hawver and his running mate Bret Landrith. After Landrith “lost his law license” Hawver “stepping into” one of Landrith’s antitrust cases. U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia dismissed the case and ordered the payment of attorneys fees and costs.
In his March 7 dismissal order, U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia wrote that Hawver had chosen to “adopt the complaint as his own,” but Murguia sanctioned Landrith for filing the “nearly unintelligible 115-page complaint.” Murguia said the complaint violated two federal court rules: It was frivolous, and it repeated errors made in two previous antitrust suits that Medical Supply and Landrith filed and that Murguia dismissed. “Enough is enough,” Murguia wrote. Landrith was ordered to pay $23,956 in defendants’ legal fees and costs after the first case was dismissed, and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld both previous dismissals, Murguia wrote.
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