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Flood v. Kuhn (Argued)
A major league baseball player, Curtis Charles Flood, pursuant to professional baseball reserve system, was traded to another major league team without being consulted about the trade, complained to the Commissioner of Baseball and sought to be made a free agent to bargain with any other major league team. -
Munchak Corp. v. Cunningham (Decided)
Plaintiffs, the owner and operators of the basketball club "The Carolina Cougars" sued to enjoin defendant, William John Cunningham, a professional basketball player, from performing services as a basketball player for any basektball club other than the Cougars in violation of a contract between the Cougars and Cunningham. In conclusion, the court reversed the judgment and remand the case for entry of an injunction restraining Cunningham from playing for any team other the Cougars. -
Flood v. Kuhn (Decided)
The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court judgment against plaintiff, based on precedent exempting baseball's reserve system from antitrust laws. -
Cincinnati Bengals v. William Bergey
The Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL) went against Bill Bergey, its premier linebacker, who has signed a contract for his future personal services with the Virginia Ambassadors of the new World Football League (WFL). As to these defendants, the plaintiff’s claim is that they are raiding the ranks of the Bengals unfairly by signing players under existing Bengal contracts to contracts for future services, i.e., services to begin when the players' Bengal contract ends. -
ANLB v. Kuhn
The owner spoke with another club owner at a cocktail party, where they were surrounded around several media representatives and this indicated that he would do anything to get a certain player. He said he could go as high as he had to. When the other club owner heard about this and he filed a complaint concerning the statements with the commissioner. The commissioner determined the club violated Major League Rule 3(g), which prohibited tampering. -
Don King Productions v. James "Buster" Douglas (Decided)
The defendants Mirage Casino-Hotel and Golden Nugget, INC., James "Buster" Douglas, and John Johnson have moved pursuant to Rule 3(j) of the Local Civil Rules of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, for reargument of the opinion of the court dated May 18, 1990. The motion for reargument has been granted, argument was heard on June 1, 1990, and upon such consideration, the prior rulings of the court set forth in the May 18 Opinion are left undisturbed. -
Bylaw 13.1.1.3 (Four-Year College Prospective Student-Athletes) (Revised : 1/10/91, 1/16/93, 1/11/94, 4/26/01, 4/29/04 effective 8/1/04, 4/29/10 effective 8/1/10)
An athletics staff member or other representative of the institution's athletics interests shall not make contact with the student-athlete of another NCAA or NAIA four-year collegiate institution, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining the written permission of the first institution's athletics director (or an athletics administrator designated by the athletics director) to do so, regardless of who makes the initial contact. If permission is not granted, the second institution shall.... -
Central Sports Army Club v. Arena Association, Inc.
A 17 year old Russian hockey player named Sergei Samsonov had originally entered into a one-year contract for the 1996-97 season with CSKA. Before the season started, he decided to play elsewhere. He retained an agent of Arena Associates, who began to make arrangements for him to play in the U.S. The sport agent assumed that Samsonov did not have a valid contract with CSKA and the CSKA fied lawsuit in the U.S..
