PORTLAND BASEBALL CLUB, INC. v. KUHN

No. 72-1568.

491 F.2d 1101 (1974)

PORTLAND BASEBALL CLUB, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bowie K. KUHN et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

February 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald C. Walker, Mark M. McCulloch, Portland, Or., for plaintiff-appellant.

Walter J. Cosgrove, of Maguire, Kester & Cosgrove, Louis L. Hoynes, Jr., Robert J. Kheel of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, New York City, James P. Garner, Warren Daane, Don H. Pace, of Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Cleveland, Ohio, Alexander H. Hadden, Gen. Counsel, Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Before DUNIWAY and SNEED, Circuit Judges, and BEEKS, District Judge.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:

This case grew out of the effort during the late Sixties to bring major league baseball to Seattle and San Diego. The plaintiff, Portland Baseball Club, Inc., formerly owned the Pacific Coast League franchise in Portland. The advent of major league baseball in Seattle would have substantially reduced the value of the plaintiff's franchise.

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