The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
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Chapter 27, Problem 6BCP
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Case summary: The associations NCAA and NFHS set a new goal of improving player safety by setting the standards for non-wood baseball bats. Company M makes non-wood bats. Four out of eleven non-wood bats of company M were decertified. Company M filed a suit against NCAA and NFHS under section 1 of the Sherman Act.
To find: The trade of M was restrained by NCAA and NFHS under section 1 of the Sherman act.
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