Copy of Brady v. NFL complaint

[ICanSleepWhenI'mDead]

You can see a copy of the actual antitrust complaint filed in Minnesota federal court on 3/11/11 by Tom Brady and others against the NFL at this link:

 

https://docs.google.com/a/leventhalpllc.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwVkb6p7OhGiMmY1MzMyZTktN2RiNC00NDA2LWFiOTAtNDhkYzAxOWE3NmU5&hl=en

 

1. Decided to make this a new topic so that people could easily decide to review it, or just skip past it if they're not interested in reading the court filings.

 

2. If I can find any other court papers filed by the players in support of their request for a preliminary injunction (seems like there must be some), I'll post them - - haven't found those yet.

 

3. Note that the players' complaint alleges that the Bills are owned by "Buffalo Bills, Inc.". That's probably the New York State corporation described here:

 

http://appext9.dos.state.ny.us/corp_public/CORPSEARCH.ENTITY_INFORMATION?p_nameid=415652&p_corpid=355631&p_entity_name=%42%75%66%66%61%6C%6F%20%42%69%6C%6C%73&p_name_type=%41&p_search_type=%42%45%47%49%4E%53&p_srch_results_page=0

[CosmicBills]

You can see a copy of the actual antitrust complaint filed in Minnesota federal court on 3/11/11 by Tom Brady and others against the NFL at this link:

 

https://docs.google.com/a/leventhalpllc.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwVkb6p7OhGiMmY1MzMyZTktN2RiNC00NDA2LWFiOTAtNDhkYzAxOWE3NmU5&hl=en

 

1. Decided to make this a new topic so that people could easily decide to review it, or just skip past it if they're not interested in reading the court filings.

 

2. If I can find any other court papers filed by the players in support of their request for a preliminary injunction (seems like there must be some), I'll post them - - haven't found those yet.

 

3. Note that the players' complaint alleges that the Bills are owned by "Buffalo Bills, Inc.". That's probably the New York State corporation described here:

 

http://appext9.dos.state.ny.us/corp_public/CORPSEARCH.ENTITY_INFORMATION?p_nameid=415652&p_corpid=355631&p_entity_name=%42%75%66%66%61%6C%6F%20%42%69%6C%6C%73&p_name_type=%41&p_search_type=%42%45%47%49%4E%53&p_srch_results_page=0

Thanks!

 

It's a compelling read. But without researching the precedents cited or the Sherman Act itself, it's (obviously) very one sided. I'm curious as to the response by the NFL attorneys.

[spartacus]

You can see a copy of the actual antitrust complaint filed in Minnesota federal court on 3/11/11 by Tom Brady and others against the NFL at this link:

 

https://docs.google....xOWE3NmU5&hl=en

 

1. Decided to make this a new topic so that people could easily decide to review it, or just skip past it if they're not interested in reading the court filings.

 

2. If I can find any other court papers filed by the players in support of their request for a preliminary injunction (seems like there must be some), I'll post them - - haven't found those yet.

 

3. Note that the players' complaint alleges that the Bills are owned by "Buffalo Bills, Inc.". That's probably the New York State corporation described here:

 

http://appext9.dos.s..._results_page=0

so in a nutshell,

 

1. the CBA has expired and the NFLPA has de-certified.

 

2. the individual players want a judge to force the owners to open for business (preferably under the rules of the expired CBA)

 

3. various aspects of conducting said business restricts trade in violation of anti-trust laws (since the CBA allowing such practices has now expired).

 

4. the players are suing the NFL for violating anti-trust laws for those very practices they want the NFL to continue.

 

Seems any un-biased court of equity (anyone but David Doty) would be hard pressed not to allow the NFL to shut things down until the pending anti-trust litigation resolves what business practices are allowed as reasonable and what are not allowed.

 

Hardly seems equitable for the players to be able to force the owners to continue running a business which they are already litigating as in violation of anti-trust.