TOPPS CHEWING GUM, INC. v. FLEER CORP.

No. 69, Docket 85-7356.

799 F.2d 851 (1986)

TOPPS CHEWING GUM, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FLEER CORPORATION, Defendant, Major League Baseball Players Association, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold F. McGuire, Jr., New York City (Terri E. Simon, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-intervenor-appellant.

Martin I. Shelton, New York City (Daniel L. Carroll, Peter G. McDonough, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before OAKES and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and POLLACK, District Judge.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

Thirty-three years ago Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. was before this Court as a defendant in a suit by a rival gum manufacturer alleging that Topps was selling baseball cards and chewing gum in violation of exclusive rights that baseball players had given to Topps' rival. See Haelan Laboratories, Inc. v. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., 202 F.2d 866 (2d Cir.), cert...

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