MATTER OF NAT. BASKETBALL ASS'N

No. 70 Civ. 1526 (RLC).

630 F.Supp. 136 (1986)

In the Matter of Proceeding between NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION and New York Knickerbockers Basketball Club and Robertson Class Plaintiffs and National Basketball Players Association.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, for NBA; Jeffrey A. Mishkin, Marc J. Goldstein, Gary B. Bettman, Gen. Counsel, Nat. Basketball Ass'n, of counsel.

Parker Auspitz Neesemann & Delehanty P.C., New York City, for New York Knickerbockers Basketball Club; John M. Delehanty, Charles L. Kerr, Richard H. Zahnd, Kenneth W. Munoz, Madison Square Garden Corp., of counsel.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for Robertson Class Plaintiffs; James W. Quinn, Jeffrey S. Klein, of counsel.


OPINION

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

In or about April, 1983, the National Basketball Association ("NBA") and the National Basketball Players Association ("NBPA") jointly applied for an order to modify the 1976 Robertson settlement agreement approved by this court in an opinion, Robertson v. National Basketball Association, 72 F.R.D. 64 (S.D.N.Y.1976) (Carter, J.), aff'd, 556 F.2d 682 (2d Cir. 1977...

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