Brown v. Pro Football Brown v. Pro Football Legal Brief #2Legal Brief #2By: Matt DeOliveira

Case InformationCase Information

• Brown vs. Pro Football

• Case Number: 518 U.S. 231

• Date Argued: March 27, 1996

• Date Settled: June 20, 1996

Fact Summary

• P: Anthony Brown,Et Al, Petitioners• D: Pro Football Inc., Washington

Redskins

• 235 squad players (P) brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the NFL and its member clubs, in which suit it was claimed that the employers' agreement to pay the squad players a $ 1,000 weekly salary violated the Sherman Act

• Two months later, in June, negotiations on the issue of developmental squad salaries reached an impasse.

John Sherman

THE

SHERMAN

ACT

ISSUES

Petitioners

• Implicit exemption applies only to labor management

• Post-impasse agreements about bargaining tactics

Solicitor General

• Exemption should terminate at the point of impasse

Do the employer’s violate the Sherman Act?

THE OUTCOME

ReferencesReferenceshttp://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy18.noblenet.org/hottopics/lnacademic/?

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