Curtis C. FLOOD, Plaintiff,
v.
Bowie K. KUHN, Individually and as Commissioner of Baseball, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, S. D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 4, 1970.
March 4, 1970.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Paul, Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, Allan H. Zerman, Clayton, Mo., for plaintiff; Arthur J. Goldberg, Jay H. Topkis, Richard M. Moss, Daniel Levitt, Max Gitter, William D. Iverson, New York City, of counsel.
Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D. C., for defendant Bowie K. Kuhn; Paul A. Porter, William L. McGovern, Dennis G. Lyons, Douglas G. Robinson, Washington, D. C., George S. Leisure, Jr., John E. Tobin, New York City, of counsel.
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York City, for defendants; Louis F. Carroll, Mark F. Hughes, Louis L. Hoynes, Jr., Barry Rona, Robert J. Kheel, New York City, of counsel.
Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant Joseph E. Cronin, President of the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, and all American League Clubs; Alexander H. Hadden, James P. Garner, Sargent Karch, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel.
United States District Court, S. D. New York.
COOPER, District Judge.
This is an action brought by plaintiff Curtis C. Flood, a major league professional baseball player, to enjoin1 the defendants — several major league baseball clubs, the American and National Leagues of Professional Baseball Clubs, the Commissioner of Baseball, and certain named individuals — from enforcing organized baseball's reserve system against him.2 Plaintiff now...
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