Court Dismisses Antitrust Claim, Finding League Was Within Its Rights to Limit Number of Teams

A federal judge from the Northern District of Illinois has sided with the Amateur Hockey Association Illinois (AHAI) in a case in which the league was sued on antitrust grounds when it declined to admit another club, the Reapers Hockey Association, Inc., citing league rules.   In so ruling, the court wrote that a market that "consists of competitive amateur youth hockey at the Tier I level" does not implicate the Sherman Act. “And even if it did, the alleged rule that restricted the numbe