Legal Opinion
St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission v. National Football League
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 3, 1998No. 97-4055, 97-4223PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
After St. Louis lost its professional football team to Phoenix in 1988, extensive efforts began to obtain another team and resulted in the successful relocation of the Los Angeles Rams in 1995. Many millions of dollars were spent in order to accomplish the relocation, and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Center (CVC) sued the National Football League and twenty four of its member teams (collectively the NFL) alleging that these expenditures were made necessary by actions of the NFL in violation of antitrust and tort law. The case was tried before a jury for over…
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