Linseman v. World Hockey Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• holding that preventing a hockey player from participating in a professional hockey league caused irreparable harm where an alternate league was an “amateur” league, in which he could not “practice against the very best competition” or achieve “superstar” status
• granting injunctive relief and finding that money could not adequately compensate player for the loss of his ability to play professional hockey for one season
• granting injunctive relief and finding that money could not adequately compensate player for the loss of his ability to play professional hockey for one season
• \the career of a professional athlete is more limited than that of persons engaged in almost any other occupation. Consequently the loss of even one year of playing time is very detrimental.\
• “The nature of [hockey player’s] occupation is it requires constant practice 10 against the very best competition possible in order to finely hone his hockey skills.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).