United States Seventh Circuit

In an antitrust case alleging that the NFL's exclusive headwear licensing agreement with Reebok International violated sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) a motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(f) to allow additional discovery was properly denied where plaintiff did not identify the evidence it sought to discover; 2) NFL teams are a "single entity" for purposes of licensing their intellectual property; and 3) as a single entity, the teams were free to license their intellectual property on an exclusive basis.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/03/2008
• Decided 08/18/2008
• Published 08/18/2008

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, SYKES, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey M. Carey (argued), Northfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregg H. Levy (argued), Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.