Post on 11-Nov-2014
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Legal Brief #1
Tom Barbone
Case 83-1342
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (P)
Vs.National Collegiate Athletic Association (D)
Antitrust
Sherman Act
CIAW
• Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
• 1981-1982 NCAA introduced 27 national championships
NCAA’s Contested Conduct• Single flat fee to enter women's athletics• Guaranteed transportation and per diem for
championships• Financial incentives to enter female teams• Packaged women's basketball championship
District Court Decision
• Noncommercial dimension therefore not subject to liability from conduct alone
• NCAA not trying to start a monopolyAnalysis
• The district found that the NCAA has not attempted to gain a monopoly
• AIAW showed that the NCAA’s takeover was a likelihood
Analysis cont.
• The courts viewed NCAA’s objective was not to takeover women’s athletics
• The NCAA did not use their new power to leverage more money out of schools
• Could not be ruled anticompetitive• Did not violate any of the three sections of the
Sherman act
Works Cited
• http://logomentor.com/ncaa-logo• http://prettytough.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/unc.jp
g• http://www.blindloop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Mi
chigan-Stadium.jpg• http://www.meachoops.com/news/default/1/30/• http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/
sports/women_printable.html• http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/06/2660163/ncaa-womans
-basketball-final-stanford.html?mi_rss=Photo%20Galleries• http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/images/set3/Large_NBC
_logo.png• http://www.jrohman.com/clients.htm
Works Cited cont.
• http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2010/01/tca_winter_2010.html
• http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4331075
• http://www.doubleazone.com/Images_Story/sbtrophy2.jpg
• http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/rpm/• http://openjurist.org/735/f2d/577/association
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