Legal Opinion
John MacKey v. National Football League
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 23, 1976No. 76-1184PublishedCited by 170 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by the National Football League (NFL), twenty-six of its member clubs, and its Commissioner, Alvin Ray “Pete” Rozelle, from a district court judgment holding the “Rozelle Rule” 1 to be violative of § 1 of the Sherman Act, and enjoining its enforcement.
This action was initiated by a group of present and former NFL players, 2 appellees herein, pursuant to §§ 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 15 and 26, and § 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. Their complaint alleged that the defendants’ enforcement of the Rozelle Rule constituted an illegal…
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