Reunification
For up-to-date information regarding the reunification of Penn State's two law schools, please click here.
For up-to-date information regarding the reunification of Penn State's two law schools, please click here.
November 20, 2009
On Friday, November 20, Penn State Law will host a moot court event on American Needle v. NFL, an antitrust case currently briefed before the United States Supreme Court. Two veteran sports law professors will take opposite sides before a panel of federal appellate judges.
“Representing” the NFL will be Gary R. Roberts, Dean and Gerald L. Bepko Professor of Law of Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, who once represented the NFL. A leading academic scholar in sports law, Roberts takes the view that the NFL is a single entity and thus internal league rules do not constitute agreements in restraint of trade. The interests of American Needle will be "represented" by Penn State Law Professor Stephen Ross, who will argue that NFL owners’ policies about licensing trademarked logos could constitute a conspiracy to restrain trade in violation of the Sherman Act.