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Dear DOJ: Take a Look at the Law Schools.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued eBay last week for agreeing not to poach employees from rival Intuit. According to the Department’s press release, “eBay’s agreement with Intuit hurt employees by lowering the salaries and benefits they might have received and deprived them of better job opportunities at the other company.” DOJ maintains that agreements among ... Dear DOJ: Take a Look at the Law Schools.
“The prospect of O’Bannon v. NCAA radically reshaping college sports is real”
Michael McCann (Vermont, CNNSI) has a very interesting column on developments in Ed O’Bannon’s lawsuit against the NCAA. O’Bannon is challenging the NCAA’s licensing of the names, images and likenesses of former Division I college athletes for commercial purposes without compensation or consent. McCann discusses the implications of O’Bannon’s motion to expand the class to ... “The prospect of O’Bannon v. NCAA radically reshaping college sports is real”
The NCAA (and St. Joseph’s) Strikes Again: The Case of Todd O’Brien
The NCAA recently denied Todd O’Brien’s appeal to make use of the Grad Student Transfer Exception — which would allow O’Brien, who graduated St. Joseph’s with a degree in economics, to continue playing basketball while pursuing a graduate degree in Public Administration at University of Alabama-Birmingham. St. Joe’s, apparently at the behest of a college ... The NCAA (and St. Joseph’s) Strikes Again: The Case of Todd O’Brien
Exclusion and the BCS
Every year around this time—around week 10 of college football season—we are reminded of the inequity of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system. Instead of permitting an open playoff system to determine the college football champion, as is done by most other NCAA sports including Division II football since 1973, and more famously, NCAA basketball, ... Exclusion and the BCS
What if the NCAA adopted Dodd-Frank?
Larcker & Tayan speculate, for example (footnotes omitted): Researchers have long noted that the compensation of college football coaches has risen faster than the compensation of other university employees. According to one study, the compensation awarded to head coaches rose 500 percent between 1986 and 2007. By comparison, the compensation of university presidents rose 100 percent ... What if the NCAA adopted Dodd-Frank?
Andrew Gavil on Revising the Merger Guidelines
1. Do the Merger Guidelines Need Revision? Yes. Conceptually, the current Guidelines incorporate multiple strands of intellectual and legal history with respect to merger analysis that have been layered one upon the other over time, but never effectively integrated. This now encumbers the application of the Guidelines and may be inhibiting the government’s capacity to ... Andrew Gavil on Revising the Merger Guidelines
Some Antitrust Links
Fred Jenny and David Evans just published a new edited volume called Trustbusters which contains chapters from the heads or senior officials of many of the leading competition authorities around the world. You can download the introductory chapter here and you can order the book from Competition Policy International or from Amazon. Sports Law Blog’s ... Some Antitrust Links
Section 2 Symposium: Bill Kolasky on Proving Market Power
The market power section of the Department’s Single Firm Conduct report is one of the strongest sections of the report. It provides an exceptionally clear discussion of the market power element under Section 2. It recognizes, in particular, that a violation of Section 2 requires more than mere market power, but rather a finding of ... Section 2 Symposium: Bill Kolasky on Proving Market Power
Section 2 Symposium: Bill Kolasky on a Stepwise Rule of Reason for Exclusionary Conduct
The most controversial part of the Justice Department’s Single Firm Conduct Report is the Department’s proposed use of what it terms a “substantial disproportionality” test for exclusionary conduct. Under this test, the Justice Department would bring a case only if the harm to consumers and competition caused by a dominant or near-dominant firm’s conduct is ... Section 2 Symposium: Bill Kolasky on a Stepwise Rule of Reason for Exclusionary Conduct
The Cousins Recruiting Saga Continues (Again)
It wasn’t too long ago that I blogged about the purported end of the Demarcus Cousins saga. For TOTM readers that want to catch up to speed, here is how things stood about a month ago: For those who haven’t, Cousins is a blue chip high school basketball recruit who has been bargaining hard with ... The Cousins Recruiting Saga Continues (Again)
Hell No, Don't Let Them Go!
My colleague and fellow UCLA alumnus Thomas Hazlett and I have published an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune proposing a partial solution, partially inspired by the early exit of Kevin Love from our beloved Bruin basketball squad, to the problem of early exit by potential NBA draftees. We note that the problem is the NCAA ... Hell No, Don't Let Them Go!
Amateurism Is What We Do!
Yesterday, the NCAA settled a horizontal price fixing class action case initiated by former basketball and football players (here, here, and here). It’s nice to see the student-athletes get something, but I wish they would have received more. The suit deals with the difference between the NCAA’s grant-in-aid (GIA) cap and the full cost of ... Amateurism Is What We Do!
