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UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

No. 12808.

116 F.Supp. 319 (1953)

UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

November 12, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Maher, W. Wilson White, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., W. Perry Epes, Alexandria, Va., Walter D. Murphy, John A. S. Riles, Barbara J. Svedberg, Washington, D. C., and Leonard R. Posner, Hartford, Conn., Department of Justice, for plaintiff.

Francis J. Myers, Thomas Hart, Cornelius C. O'Brien, Alfred W. Putnam, Harry Shapiro, Hirsch W. Stalberg, Philadelphia, Pa., Milton W. King, Bernard I. Nordlinger, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

GRIM, District Judge.

Article X of the by-laws of the National Football League provides that no club shall cause or permit a game in which it is engaged to be telecast or broadcast by a station within 75 miles of another League City on the day that the home club of the other city is either playing a game in its home city or is playing away from home and broadcasting or televising its game by use of a station within 75 miles of its home city, unless permission for...

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