Sports and the Law: Examining the Legal Evolution of America's Three 'Major Leagues

Sports and the Law: Examining the Legal Evolution of America's Three "Major Leagues", 3rd Edition, represents the most up-to-date legal analysis of a wide variety of cutting-edge sports law issues that have impacted the "Three Major Leagues" since the last edition was published. In particular, each chapter’s updates, which are linked to an Appendix containing companion study guides, comprehensively analyze the most significant sports law developments over the past several years. Beginning with an analysis of Commissioner’s Authority and the Major Leagues’ collective bargaining agreements, the book tracks the major changes to the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy and the recently negotiated CBAs in the NBA and MLB. In so doing, the book and study guides take a deep dive into the landmark cases that exemplify the Leagues’ disciplinary and dispute resolution processes in action, such as Deflategate, domestic violence suspensions in the NFL and MLB, players’ and teams’ usage of social media, NFL uniform and equipment rules, and the Cardinals-Astros hacking scandal.

Next, the text analyzes how the historic baseball “antitrust exemption,” which was first established by the Supreme Court in 1922 (and upheld in 1972 in Flood v. Kuhn), has been applied most recently with (more...)