ELEVEN LINE v. NORTH TEXAS STATE SOCCER ASS'N

No. 98-11102.

213 F.3d 198 (2000)

ELEVEN LINE, INC., d/b/a Permian Basin Sports Center, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NORTH TEXAS STATE SOCCER ASSOCIATION, INC., a Texas Non-Profit Corporation, Midland Soccer Association, Inc., a Texas Non-Profit Corporation, and Odessa Soccer Association, Inc., a Texas Non-Profit Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 6, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara L. Emerson (argued), Bellinger & DeWolf, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Robert B. Cousins, Jr. (argued), O. Luke Davis, III, Lawrence S. Fischman (argued), Glast, Phillips & Murray, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before DAVIS and JONES, Circuit Judges, and LEMELLE, District Judge.


EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns allegedly exclusionary, anti-competitive conduct by non-profit volunteer-run soccer organizations against a for-profit indoor soccer facility that operated in the Midland-Odessa community of West Texas. A jury found that the organizations' implementation of a membership rule requiring players, coaches and referees to play soccer only at "sanctioned" facilities essentially put the plaintiff, Eleven Line, Inc., out of...

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