U.S. Supreme Court’s American Needle Decision

On June 11, 2010, Cravath issued to its clients a memo entitled “The Supreme Court Clarifies the Scope of the Single-Enterprise Doctrine.” The memo discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League, which held that the collective product licensing activities of the 32 NFL teams are not exempt from antitrust scrutiny under Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

Please click here to read the memo.