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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Sun Jun 1, 2014, 04:35 AM Jun 2014

Is there any possible chance that Sterling's anti-trust suit against the NBA...

...could,without meaning to, create legal precedent that leads to the anti-trust exemptions enjoyed by the major sports leagues being ruled unconstitutional or otherwise invalid?

It would be a huge "law of unintended consequences" result if that happened.

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Is there any possible chance that Sterling's anti-trust suit against the NBA... (Original Post) Ken Burch Jun 2014 OP

Why do the major sports leagues have anti-trust exemptions anyway ? dipsydoodle Jun 2014 #1

as far as I know, only baseball has exemption Leme Jun 2014 #2

I thought it was all of them. Sorry. n/t. Ken Burch Jun 2014 #3

no big thing Leme Jun 2014 #4

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

1. Why do the major sports leagues have anti-trust exemptions anyway ?

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 05:03 AM

Jun 2014

Just asking. I'm UK - we have no equivalent.

Leme

(1,092 posts)

2. as far as I know, only baseball has exemption

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 06:41 AM

Jun 2014

Only baseball has that exemption, not basketball or football or hockey .

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

3. I thought it was all of them. Sorry. n/t.

Reply to Leme (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 06:44 AM

Jun 2014

Leme

(1,092 posts)

4. no big thing

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 06:56 AM

Jun 2014

but it is a big thing that baseball has no exposure to anti-trust. some day it will be challenged again in court. I don't like that baseball has an exemption.

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