NFL Lockout and Flurry Of Justice Department Merger Reviews
June 23, 2011
Source: The New York Law Journal. Reprinted with permission.
The National Football League's labor and antitrust dispute made its way to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit where a divided appellate panel indicated that the league's lockout would likely be shielded from the players' antitrust challenge by a labor exemption even though the players disbanded their union before filing their suit.