Legal Opinion
Molinas v. National Basketball Association
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 11, 1961PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Jack Molinas, is a well-known basketball player. In 1953, upon his graduation from Columbia University he was “drafted” by the Fort Wayne Pistons, then a member of the defendant National Basketball Association (now the Detroit Pistons). Subsequently, in the fall of 1953, he signed a contract to play with the Pistons. In January of 1954, however, he admitted, in writing, that he placed several bets on his team, the Pistons, to win. The procedure he followed was that he contacted a person in New York by telephone, who informed him of the “point…
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