PHILADELPHIA WORLD HOCKEY CLUB, INC.
v.
PHILADELPHIA HOCKEY CLUB, INC., et al.
PHILADELPHIA HOCKEY CLUB, INC.
v.
John McKENZIE et al.
John McKENZIE
v.
PHILADELPHIA HOCKEY CLUB, INC., et al.
SPORTS CENTREPOINT ENTERPRISES, LTD., et al.
v.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE et al.
WORLD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION et al.
v.
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE et al.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 8, 1972.
November 8, 1972.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz by Edward W. Madeira, Jr., Barbara W. Mather, Jeffrey C. Hayes, Charles J. Bloom, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.
Blank, Rome, Klaus & Comisky by Edwin P. Rome, and Richard P. McElroy, Philadelphia, Pa., and Covington & Burling by Herbert Dym, Harry L. Shniderman, James H. McGlothlin, Charles Lister and Alan K. Palmer, Washington, D. C., for Philadelphia Hockey Club, Inc., Boston Professional Hockey Association, Inc., Charles O. Finley and Company, Inc., Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Team, Inc., Detroit Hockey Club, Inc., California Sports, Inc., North Star Financial Corp., Le Club de Hockey Canadien, Inc., Madison Square Center, Inc., Pittsburgh Penguin Partners, limited partnership, St. Louis Blues Hockey Club, Inc., Maple Leaf Gardens, Limited, Vancouver Hockey Club, Limited, Niagara Frontier Hockey Corp., and National Hockey League, defendants.
Arthur Morse, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Team, Inc.
Harold E. Kohn, P. A. by Harold E. Kohn, Steven E. Haberfeld, Aaron M. Fine, Arthur Kaplan, Philadelphia, Pa., for John McKenzie.
Jerome H. Torshen, Chicago, Ill., for Sports Centrepoint, and others.
Sommer, Tinkham, Barnard & Freiberger by William C. Barnard, Indianapolis, Ind., for Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Team, Inc.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.
I.
INTRODUCTION
In 1917, the National Hockey League was born with Montreal and Toronto as its only members. In 1924, Boston was added, followed in 1926 with Chicago, Detroit and New York. In 1967, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, California, Minnesota, St. Louis entered the League and in 1970 Buffalo and Vancouver. In 1972, Nassau (New York) and Atlanta joined this now famous League. Since 1966, the National...
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