Eleven Line, Inc. v. North Texas State Soccer Ass'n

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns allegedly exclusionary, anti-competitive conduct by non-profit volunteer-run soccer organizations against a for-profit indoor soccer facility that operated in the Midland-Odessa community of West Texas. A jury found that the organizations’ implementation of a membership rule requiring players, coaches and referees to play soccer only at “sanctioned” facilities essentially put the plaintiff, Eleven Line, Inc., out of business. Several federal antitrust and state law causes of action were sustained by the jury, and judgment was rendered for…