Radovich v. National Football League

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Radovich v. National Football League
the Supreme Court of the United States
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Radovich v. National Football League (NFL), 352 U.S. 445 (1957), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that professional football, unlike professional baseball, was subject to antitrust laws. It was the third of three such cases heard by the Court in the 1950s involving the antitrust status of professional sports.

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United States Supreme Court

352 U.S. 445

Radovich  v.  National Football League

 Argued: Jan. 17, 1957. --- Decided: Feb 25, 1957

See 353 U.S. 931, 77 S.Ct. 716.

Mr. Maxwell Keith, San Francisco, Cal., for the petitioner.

Mr. Philip Elman, Washington, D.C., for the United States, as amicus curiae.

Messrs. Marshall E. Leahy, San Francisco, Cal., and Bernard I. Nordlinger, Washington, D.C., for the respondents.

Mr. Justice CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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