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ST. LOUIS CONVENTION & VISITORS COM'N v. N.F.L.

Nos. 97-4055, 97-4223.

154 F.3d 851 (1998)

ST. LOUIS CONVENTION & VISITORS COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE; B & B Holdings, Inc.; The Five Smiths, Inc.; Buffalo Bills, Inc.; Chicago Bears Football Club, Inc.; Cleveland Browns Football Company, Inc.; Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Ltd.; PBD Sports, LTD; The Detroit Lions, Inc.; The Green Bay Packers, Inc; Houston Oilers, Inc.; Indianapolis Colts, Inc.; Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc.; Miami Dolphins, Ltd.; Minnesota Vikings Football Club, Inc.; New England Patriots, Limited Partnership; The New Orleans Saints; New York Football Giants, Inc.; New York Jets Football Club, Inc.; Philadelphia Eagles Holdings, L.P.; Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc.; Chargers Football Company; San Francisco Forty-Niners, Limited; Seattle Seahawks, Inc.; Pro-Football Inc., Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 3, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Popkin, St. Louis, MO, argued (Arthur L. Smith and Charles S. Kramer, on the brief), for Appellant.

Gregg H. Levy, Washington, DC, argued (Sonya D. Winner, Frank Rothman, James Keyte, Alan C. Kohn and John A. Klobasa, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before WOLLMAN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and KYLE, District Judge.

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

After St. Louis lost its professional football team to Phoenix in 1988, extensive efforts began to obtain another team and resulted in the successful relocation of the Los Angeles Rams in 1995. Many millions of dollars were spent in order to accomplish the relocation, and the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Center (CVC) sued the National Football League and twenty four of its member teams (collectively the NFL) alleging that these expenditures...

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