LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM COM'N v. NAT. FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Nos. 80-5156, 80-5159.

634 F.2d 1197 (1980)

LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, an Unincorporated Association; Baltimore Football Club, Inc.; Buffalo Bills, Inc.; Chargers Football Company; Chicago Bears Football Club, Inc.; Cincinatti Bengals, Inc.; Cleveland Browns, Inc.; etc., et al., Defendants-Appellants. LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, etc., et al., Defendants, and Los Angeles Rams Football Company, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney E. Nelson, Nelson, Ritchie & Gill, Los Angeles, Cal., for L. A. Rams.

Joseph L. Alioto, Alioto & Alioto, San Francisco, Cal., Maxwell M. Blecher, Los Angeles, Cal., for Raiders.

Patrick Lynch, Los Angeles, Cal., for NFL.

Before WALLACE and POOLE, Circuit Judges, and MacBRIDE, Senior District Judge.


POOLE, Circuit Judge:

The National Football League (NFL) and certain of its members appeal from a preliminary injunction which restrained them from applying section 4.3 of the League's Constitution and Bylaws to a proposed transfer by the Oakland Raiders Ltd., football team (Raiders) of their home game playing site from Oakland to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (the Coliseum). Suit was filed by the appellee, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission (Commission...

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