Legal Opinion
Chicago Professional Sports Ltd. Partnership v. National Basketball Ass'n
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 6, 1995No. 90 C 6247PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND OPINION
WILL, District Judge.
In January 1991, we enjoined the National Basketball Association (“NBA”) from reducing to 20 from 25 the number of games involving the Chicago Professional Sports Limited Partnership’s NBA team, the Chicago Bulls (“Bulls”), that WGN Continental Broadcasting Company (“WGN”) could televise as a superstation. Our opinion and decision are reported in 754 F.Supp. 1336-64 (N.D.Ill.1991) (“NBA I”). We there set out at some length the history of the NBA and of superstation telecasts of NBA games by the three superstations, WTBS,…
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