Ronald Behagen v. Amateur Basketball Association of the United States of America, and William Wall

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• holding NGB’s seemingly anticompetitive conduct regarding amateur basketball exempt from antitrust laws because it was necessary to implement clear intent of Congress
• “Proceeding from this certain ground that [USOPC] is not a governmental actor, it follows a fortiori that [an NGB] is also not a governmental actor.”
• “It is axiomatic that the fifth amendment applies to and restricts only the Federal Government and not private persons.” (quotations omitted)
• “Although the Amateur Sports Act does not contain an explicit statement exempting action taken under its direction from the federal antitrust laws, we find that the directives of the Act make the intent of Congress sufficiently clear. . . .”
• connecting implied antitrust immunity with Congressional intent for the ASA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).