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CHICAGO PROF. SPORTS LTD. PARTNERSHIP v. N.B.A.

No. 90 C 6247.

874 F.Supp. 844 (1995)

CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL SPORTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP and WGN Continental Broadcasting Company, Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

January 6, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel G. Chefitz, Stephen D. Libowsky, James E. Hanlon, Jr., Ronald S. Betman, Laura Keidan Martin, and Robert K. Niewijk, Katten, Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, IL, for Chicago Professional Sports Ltd. Partnership.

John D. McCambridge, Irving C. Faber, Darrell J. Graham, Eric D. Brandfonbrener, Christopher B. Wilson, and Michael P. Conway, Grippo & Elden, Chicago, IL, for WGN.

Matthew A. Rooney, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, Michael A. Cardozo, Ronald S. Rauchberg, Howard L. Ganz, Gregg M. Mashberg, Bradley I. Ruskin, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn; and Jeffrey A. Mishkin and William S. Koenig, National Basketball Ass'n, New York City, for National Basketball Ass'n.

FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND OPINION

WILL, District Judge.

In January 1991, we enjoined the National Basketball Association ("NBA") from reducing to 20 from 25 the number of games involving the Chicago Professional Sports Limited Partnership's NBA team, the Chicago Bulls ("Bulls"), that WGN Continental Broadcasting Company ("WGN") could televise as a superstation. Our opinion and decision are reported in 754 F.Supp. 1336

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