Court Sacks Photographers’ Antitrust Claims against the NFL and Its Member Teams

By William F. Cavanaugh, Jr., George A. Lobiondo and Thomas W. Pippert, of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP   Allegations of conspiracy to restrain trade and exclusive dealing may read like textbook antitrust claims, but if the allegations are made by a plaintiff who is not an “efficient enforcer” of the antitrust laws, the complaint is vulnerable to a motion to dismiss. In Spinelli et al. v. Nat’l Football League et al., No. 13 Civ. 7398 (S.D.N.Y.), Judge Robert W. Sweet of the Sou