Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Warren v. Serody
54 L. Ed. 2d 59
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1977-08-30
- Topic
- general
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” | 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" | 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 | 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." | “under appropriate circumstances, we find that a non-labor group may avail itself of the [nonstatutory] labor exemption.” | “federal labor policy is sufficiently implicated to prevail only where the agreement sought to be exempted concerns a mandatory subject of collective bargaining.” | “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” | restraints on movement of labor force in securities industry | Per se rule inapplicable to NFL Rozelle rule | per se rule inapplicable to NFL Rozelle rule | Death on High Seas Act and Florida wrongful death statute | noting "joint venture" characteristics of NFL | noting “joint venture” characteristics of NFL | NFL draft violates rule of reason
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari dismissed August 30, 1977, under this Court’s Rule 60.