World Football League v. Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
BATEMAN, Justice.
This is an interlocutory appeal from a temporary injunction. Although numerous defendants were named in the petition, the temporary injunction was ordered only against the appellant World Football League (“WFL”), and it was temporarily enjoined “from [1] directly or indirectly entering into any oral or written contracts with any football players now under contract with the [appellee] Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Inc. [the “Club”] to perform services as football players in the World Football League, or [2] from inducing or attempting to induce any such football players under…
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