WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court doesn’t seem interested in immediately giving the National Football League the same antitrust law protection enjoyed by Major League baseball.
Justices on Wednesday seemed skeptical of arguments that the NFL should be considered one business, not 32 separate teams working together, when it comes to selling NFL-branded items. The lower courts had thrown out an antitrust lawsuit brought against the league by one of its former hat makers.
American Needle, Inc. appealed the dismissal to the Supreme Court. But the NFL also appealed, hoping to get protection from antitrust lawsuits. Major League Baseball is the only professional sports league with blanket antitrust protection, and several justices indicated they thought the case shouldn’t have been dismissed in the lower courts.
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