Warren v. Serody

How later courts describe this case

• holding Rozelle rule “unreasonable,” inter alia, because it applied not just to better players, but “to every NFL player regardless of his status or ability”
• concluding without discussion that the rule of reason "would be applicable"
• "federal labor policy is sufficiently implicated to prevail only where the agreement sought to be exempted concerns a mandatory subject of collective bargaining."
• permissible to infer that four people aboard small Cessna plane were aware of impending death from fact that pilot radioed plans to ditch at sea
• “The prevailing rule in [the Fifth Circuit] is that the award of prejudgment interest in death claims under DOHSA is discretionary with the trial court”
• Rozelle Rule, a forerunner of the Plan B right of first refusal and compensation restraints, found to violate § 1 of the Sherman Act
• "under appropriate circumstances, we find that a non-labor group may avail itself of the [nonstatutory] labor exemption."
• “A union’s duty, in representing its members and protecting them from invidious treatment, must certainly be broader then simply refusing to sign overtly discriminatory agreements”