Third Circuit Remands Question about Fees in ATP Case to Lower Court
By Ellen Rugeley
Almost four years after winning an antitrust lawsuit in a Delaware federal court, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), which operates a men’s professional tennis circuit, is now set to return to that same court in order to defend a policy requiring the defendants to pay $20 million in legal fees.
The original lawsuit, filed in 2007 by the German Tennis Federation and Qatar Tennis Federation, stemmed from the ATP’s decision to lower the Hamburg eventâ€