AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

No. 8780.

323 F.2d 124 (1963)

AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE et al., Appellants, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 23, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren E. Baker, Washington, D. C. (Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff; David A. Peters, Washington, D. C., Thomas F. O'Toole, New York City, and Albert L. Ledgard, Jr., Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants.

Gerhard A. Gesell, Washington, D. C. (Hamilton Carothers, Charles W. Havens, III, Washington, D. C., Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., William D. Macmillan, and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, BOREMAN and BRYAN, Circuit Judges.


HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The American Football League and owners of its franchises are contending against the National Football League and the owners of its franchises for victory in the courts. The American Football League and the owners of its franchises lost in the Court below, when the District Court held that there had been no violation of Sections 1, 2 or 3 of the Sherman Act1 by the National Football League and the owners of its...

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