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1. What happened to the Giants and Jets loyal fans?
(Sports/Professional)

... across the street from Shea Stadium in Flushing would be an excellent location for a "condo" football stadium. In 1985 and during the USFL-NFL Antitrust Case in 1986, Trump was talking about building a ...

2. Discarded NFL players are often forgotten in retirement
(Sports/Professional)

... tough guys to go public. There is still a stigma attached even in retirement for players who don't toe the company line. Congress can go after two of the league's antitrust exemptions, the Sports Broadcast ...

3. What the NFL's antitrust loss in Supreme Court means
(Sports/Professional)

BY AVI FRISCH NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The National Football League had argued to the courts that it is a single entity and that antitrust laws do not apply to its activities, particularly when it involves ...

4. NFL preparing for ‘Replacements II’ sequel with possibility of 2011 lockout
(Sports/Professional)

... uniform per diems, and for teams to supply their own equipment. Nothing happened but the players got a big break in 1957 when, the first lawsuit involving professional football and antitrust was filed, ...

5. Why N.J. cannot get a Major League Baseball team
(Sports/Professional)

... baseball team. The areas are in other team's territories and Major League Baseball, thanks to an antitrust exemption, can just say no to anyone who wants to put a team in San Jose or East Rutherford, ...

6. Why isn’t Sonny Werblin in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
(Sports/Professional)

... violated antitrust laws and was not originally a Hunt idea. Hunt borrowed a concept from Branch Rickey who was out of baseball and trying to form a third major league, the Continental Baseball League, ...

7. Could New Jersey end up with another NBA team after the Nets leave?
(Sports/Professional)

... to fill as many dates as possible in his building. Moving an existing franchise to Newark may not be a large problem as the NBA, unlike Major League Baseball, is subjected to antitrust laws. It would ...

8. New Jersey Congressmen hail House vote to repeal anti-trust exemption for insurance industry
(U.S./Nation)

... rules of a truly competitive market. By removing the unfair antitrust exemption for health insurance companies, the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act will allow the healthy incentives of a ...

9. Health care insurers should acknowledge their part in the failure to control costs
(Opinion/Commentary)

... around insurance company rate increases, including ending the insurance industry's special exemption from antitrust laws. Caps on out-of-pocket costs for consumers to prevent medical bankruptcy. Americans ...

10. How entrepreneurs slip through the health care system’s cracks
(Health/Healthquest)

... ninety-four percent of state health insurance markets qualify as "highly concentrated" under U.S. Department of Justice antitrust guidelines. That means that there are not many insurance options to begin ...

11. Disney to acquire comic book giant Marvel and over 5,000 characters for $4 billion
(Entertainment/Movies)

... and finally major motion pictures," he says. "We are so lucky." The deal is still subject to an antitrust review and approval from Marvel shareholders. There are also questions about what will happen ...

12. Roberts' judges-like-umpires analogy is way off base
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Antitrust laws are sparsely worded and left for development by the courts, which not only make laws, but also can then reverse them (apropos of this, the Supreme Court created an exemption from the antitrust ...

13. sports
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Sports law is a special type of law that blends together various key areas of law such as contract negotiation, settlement and enforcement, antitrust law and tort law.Contract law applies most of the times ...

14. U.S. lawmakers consider measures to save newspaper industry
(U.S./Nation)

... the Dallas Morning News, called on lawmakers to revise antitrust law to allow newspapers to group together to seek a larger share of revenues collected by online news aggregators. "If the newspaper industry ...