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M. & C. COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE v. B. FOOTBALL C.

Civ. A. Nos. B-84-1294, B-84-2560.

624 F.Supp. 278 (1985)

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, a municipal corporation v. BALTIMORE FOOTBALL CLUB INC., a body corporate of the State of Delaware, and National Football League, an Unincorporated Association. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS, INC. v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, a municipal corporation, William Donald Schaefer, Mayor of City of Baltimore, John Doe, Richard Roe, ABC, Inc., and XYZ, a partnership.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

As Amended January 8, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin L. Brown, Baltimore City Sol., Ambrose T. Hartman, Deputy City Sol., Richard K. Jacobsen, Chief Sol., L. William Gawlik, and J. Shawn Alcarese, Asst. City Solicitors; and Edwin C. Thomas, III, John R. Myers, Dennis P.W. Johnson, and Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, Ill., for Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, William Donald Schaefer, Mayor of the City of Baltimore, and members of the Baltimore City Council.

Joshua R. Treem and Schulman & Treem, P.A., Baltimore, Md., and Max O. Truitt, Jr., James Robertson, James E. Coleman, Jr., Carol E. Mattey and Gay Gellhorn, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for Baltimore Football Club, Inc./Indianapolis Colts, Inc.

George Beall, Mark D. Gately, and Miles & Stockbridge, Baltimore, Md., and Paul J. Tagliabue, Sonya D. Winner, and Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for Nat. Football League, an unincorporated ass'n, and Nat. Football League, a joint venture of its member teams.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WALTER E. BLACK, JR., District Judge.

The original action (B-84-1294) in this consolidated litigation involves the attempt of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore ("the City") to condemn a professional football team — formerly the Baltimore Colts, and now doing business as the Indianapolis Colts ("the Colts"). Through its power of eminent domain, the City seeks to condemn the Colts' franchise in the National Football League ...

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