Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part
James McCoy (Yazoo) Smith v. Pro Football, Inc., a Maryland Corporation, A/K/A Washington Redskins and the National Football League, (Two Cases)
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 1, 1979No. 76-2135, 76-2136Published
1Concurring in part, dissenting in partMacKINNON, Circuit Judge
We are here called upon to rule in a backhanded way upon the validity under the antitrust laws of the National Football League’s 1968 college player draft.1 The *1192litigation was not instituted as a class action to benefit players who were allegedly victimized by the player draft but rather as an indirect means of obtaining compensation for a football injury to a player that the court has ruled is not otherwise compensible.2 I would similarly deny the claim in this indirect effort.
The district court held that the 1968 college player football draft3 conducted by the National Football League4…
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- Continental T. v. Inc. v. GTE Sylvania Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Board of Trade of Chicago v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- National Society of Professional Engineers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- United States v. Topco Associates, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1972
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