CITY OF SHREVEPORT v. SHREVEPORT CDN FTBL

No. 00-30964.

261 F.3d 503 (2001)

City of Shreveport, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Shreveport Canadian Football, Inc., et al. Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 8, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Thomas Arceneaux (argued), Shreveport, LA, Sidney Earl Cook, Jr., Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway, Shreveport, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Billy R. Pesnell (argued), Hargrove, Pesnell & Wyatt, Mark Ellis Gilliam, Wilkinson, Carmody & Gilliam, Shreveport, LA, James P. Davey, Kemp, Klein, Umphrey & Endelman, Troy, MI, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and LITTLE, District Judge.


LITTLE, District Judge:

For the reasons that follow, we remand for the district court's further consideration of this contract dispute.

BACKGROUND

Professional football is indeed a sport well accepted by its American audience. In the year 2000, attendance at National Football League games set an attendance record for the third consecutive year. Total regular-season ticket sales were 16,-387,289, an...

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