Charles SHAW; Bret D. Schwartz; Steve Promislo, Individually, and on Behalf of all Persons Similarly Situated
v.
DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL CLUB, LTD.; New England Patriots Football Club; New York Giants Football, Inc.; Philadelphia Eagles Limited Partnership; San Francisco Forty-Niners, Ltd.; National Football League, Appellants
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 11, 1999.
Decided April 9, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Howard J. Sedran (Argued), Donald E. Haviland, Jr., Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, On the Brief: Michael D. Hausfeld, Daniel Small, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Washington, D.C., William Bernstein, Joseph R. Saveri, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Samuel D. Heins, Daniel E. Gustafson, Heins, Mills & Olson, P.L.C., Minneapolis, MN, David T. Shulick, Frank & Rosen, Philadelphia, PA, Roberta D. Liebenberg, Liebenberg & White, Jenkintown, PA, Allyn Z. Lite, Goldstein, Lite & DePalma, Newark, NJ, Ira Neil Richards, Trujillo, Rodriguez & Richards, LLC, Philadelphia, PA, Dennis Stewart, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, CA, March Edelson, Hoffman & Edelson, Doylestown, PA, Joseph C. Kohn, Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Bruce McNew, Taylor Gruver & McNew, P.A., Kennett Pike, Greenville, DE, Gregory Veith, Esquire, Wynnewood, PA, for Appellees.
Peter J. Nickles, Timothy C. Hester (Argued), Neil K. Roman, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., Richard P. McElroy Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellants.
Before: MANSMANN, SCIRICA and NYGAARD, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
OPINION OF THE COURT
MANSMANN, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal involving a certified question, we must determine, as a matter of first impression, whether an agreement among members of the National Football League1 to sell broadcast rights jointly to satellite distributors is exempt from scrutiny under the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq. Citing the Sports Broadcasting Act...
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