Author: Steven Madoff Steven Madoff is a former Executive Vice President at Paramount Pictures and General Counsel for its Home Entertainment Subsidiary. He is Of Counsel at Bona Law. When you see someone acting strangely, do you ever wonder if they are possessed? If you do, it might be because…
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Baseball and the Antitrust Laws Part II: The Owners Strike Back (and Strike Out)
Author: Luke Hasskamp This is the second of a series of articles examining some of the interesting intersections between the law and baseball, with a focus on baseball’s exemption from federal and state antitrust laws. (Though, like the first article, this one does not quite reach the antitrust issues, as…
Baseball and the Antitrust Laws Part I: The Origins of the Reserve Clause
Author: Luke Hasskamp This is the first of a series of articles intended to address some of the interesting intersections between the law and baseball, particularly baseball’s curious exemption from federal and state antitrust laws. More generally, it’s about the struggle between team owners and players since the dawn of…
Major League Baseball, an Antitrust Exemption, and the Ninth Circuit
Author: Jarod Bona Baseball is special. How do we know that? Is it the fact that it has been declared America’s Pastime? Or is it the feelings we have when we smell the freshly cut grass on a sunny spring day? Or is it the acoustics of a wood bat…
Antitrust News: The Oscars’ Proposed Ban on Netflix Movies Raises Antitrust Concerns
Author: Aaron Gott My morning routine usually begins with reading the news to keep up on current events. As an antitrust lawyer, I often find myself thinking about how stories that were deemed newsworthy for other reasons fail to recognize their often most troubling aspects: the antitrust concerns. Last week,…