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LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM COM'N v. NFL

Nos. 83-5907 to 83-5909.

791 F.2d 1356 (1986)

LOS ANGELES MEMORIAL COLISEUM COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, an unincorporated association, Baltimore Football Club, Inc. (Baltimore Colts), Buffalo Bills, Inc., Chargers Football Co. (San Diego Chargers), Chicago Bears Football Club, Inc., Cincinnati Bengals, Inc., Cleveland Browns, Inc., Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Inc., Detroit Lions, Inc., Five Smiths, Inc. (Atlanta Falcons), Green Bay Packers, Inc., Houston Oilers, Inc., Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc., Los Angeles Rams Football Co., Miami Dolphins, Ltd., Minnesota Vikings Football Club, Inc., New England Patriots Football Club, Inc., New Orleans Saints Louisiana Partnership, New York Football Giants, New York Jets Football Club, Inc., Philadelphia Eagles Football Club, Inc., Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc., Pro-Football, Inc. (Washington Redskins), EFK Sports, Ltd., sued herein as Rocky Mountain Empire Sports, Inc. (Denver Broncos), St. Louis Football Cardinals Co., San Francisco Forty-Niners, Seattle Professional Football (Seattle Seahawks), and Tampa Bay Area NFL Football, Inc. (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Defendants-Appellants. OAKLAND RAIDERS, LTD., Cross Claimant-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, an unincorporated association, et al., Cross Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted November 8, 1984.

Decided June 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxwell M. Blecher, Howard F. Daniels, Blecher, Collins & Weinstein, Los Angeles, Cal., for L.A. Memorial Coliseum.

Joseph L. Alioto, Joseph M. Alioto, Daniel J. Mulligan, Alioto & Alioto, Moses Lasky, Lasky, Haas, Cohler & Munter, San Francisco, Cal., for L.A. Raiders.

Patrick Lynch, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, Cal., James W. Cotchett, Jr., Cotchett, Dyer & Illston, San Mateo, Cal., Daniel Gribbon, Paul J. Tagliabue, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., Wm. Marshall Morgan, Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas, Los Angeles, Cal., for National Football League.

Donald G. Kempf, Jr., Michael P. Foradas, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago Bears.

Before ANDERSON and NELSON, Circuit Judges, and S. WILLIAMS, District Judge.

NELSON, Circuit Judge:

We now face the second and concluding set of appeals from the district court litigation concerning the move by the Oakland Raiders professional football team (the "Raiders") from Oakland, California to Los Angeles, California. In our earlier opinion, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission v. National Football League, 726 F.2d 1381 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 105 S.Ct. 397, 83 L.Ed...

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