Panel Affirms Ruling Favoring Baseball in Antitrust Case

The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. in an antitrust dispute, affirming the findings of a district court.   In so ruling, the panel of judges denied the plaintiff’s contention that the lower court “should not have required evidence with regard to market power or actual adverse effect on competition, but should instead have held MLBP's activities either illegal per se or illegal under a ‘quick-look’ analysis.”   The cou