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Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that preserved the reserve clause in Major League Baseball (MLB) players' contracts. By a 5–3 margin, the Court reaffirmed the antitrust exemption that had been granted to professional baseball in 1922 under Federal Baseball Club v. National League, and previously affirmed by Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. in 1953. While the majority believed that baseball's antitrust exemption was anomalous compared to other professional sports, it held that any changes to the exemption should be made through Congress and not the courts.

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  • Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that preserved the reserve clause in Major League Baseball (MLB) players' contracts. By a 5–3 margin, the Court reaffirmed the antitrust exemption that had been granted to professional baseball in 1922 under Federal Baseball Club v. National League, and previously affirmed by Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. in 1953. While the majority believed that baseball's antitrust exemption was anomalous compared to other professional sports, it held that any changes to the exemption should be made through Congress and not the courts. The National League had instituted the reserve clause in 1879 as a means of limiting salaries by keeping players under team control. Under that system, a baseball team reserved players under contract for a year after the contract expired, preventing them from being taken by other teams in bidding wars. MLB team owners argued that the clause was necessary to ensure a competitive balance among teams, as otherwise wealthier clubs would outbid teams in smaller markets for star players. The reserve clause was not addressed in Federal Baseball, where Ned Hanlon, owner of the rival Federal League's (FL) Baltimore Terrapins, had argued that MLB had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act through anticompetitive practices meant to force the FL out of business. The Supreme Court ruled that baseball did not qualify as interstate commerce for the purposes of the Sherman Act, a ruling that remained even after it denied boxing and American football the same exemption. In 1969, Curt Flood, a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. Flood was unhappy with the trade, as the Phillies were not known to treat players well, but the reserve clause required him to play for Philadelphia. He retained attorney Arthur Goldberg, a former Supreme Court justice, through Marvin Miller and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and took the case to court, arguing that the reserve clause was a collusive measure that reduced competition and thus an antitrust violation. The reserve system was upheld by all three courts under the principle of stare decisis and the precedents set by Federal Baseball and Toolson. Legal scholars have criticized the Court's decision in Flood both for its rigid application of stare decisis as well as Section I of Harry Blackmun's majority opinion, an "ode to baseball" that contains little legal matter. The reserve clause was settled outside the Supreme Court three years later through the arbitration system created by the collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the MLBPA. Peter Seitz ruled in favor of Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally that their contracts could only be renewed without their permission for one season, after which they became free agents. Free agency in MLB was codified the following year after the 1976 Major League Baseball lockout, while the Curt Flood Act of 1998, signed by Bill Clinton, ended baseball's antitrust exemption as it related to interactions between players and owners, but preserved it in other areas such as franchise relocation. Courts have continued to differ over the extent of the exemption; a 2021 suit filed over that year's minor league reorganization asks that it be rescinded entirely. (en)
  • カート・フラッド事件（カート・フラッドじけん , フラッド対キューン裁判とも）とは、1969年オフにMLBセントルイス・カージナルスに所属していたカート・フラッドがトレード移籍を拒否したことに始まる一連の係争の事である。球団と選手の契約に関する縛りがシャーマン法（反トラスト法＝独占禁止法）に違反するか否かが争われ、1972年に合衆国最高裁判所で選手側敗訴の評決が出た。 (ja)
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  • Curt Flood v. Bowie Kuhn, et al. (en)
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  • Professional baseball is in fact interstate commerce under the Sherman Antitrust Act, but congressional acquiescence in previous jurisprudence to the contrary make it the legislative branch's responsibility to end or modify antitrust exemption unique among professional sports. Second Circuit affirmed. (en)
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  • Baseball and the Antitrust Laws (en)
  • Blackmun's List (en)
  • In the Wake of the Flood (en)
  • The Aftermath of Flood v. Kuhn: Professional Baseball's Exemption from Antitrust Regulation (en)
  • Probing for Holes in the 100-Year-Old Baseball Exemption: A New Post-Alston Challenge (en)
  • Overruling Statutory Precedents (en)
  • Reconsidering Flood v. Kuhn (en)
  • It'll Break Your Heart Every Time: Race, Romanticism and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Litigating Baseball's Antitrust Exemption (en)
  • Overcoming an 'Aberration': San Jose Challenges Major League Baseball's Longstanding Antitrust Exemption (en)
  • Derelict in the Stream of the Law: Overruling Baseball's Antitrust Exemption (en)
  • There's No Tying in Baseball: On Illinois Tool and the Presumption of Market Power in Patent Tying Cases (en)
  • Anatomy of an Aberration: An Examination of the Attempts to Apply Antitrust Law to Major League Baseball through Flood v. Kuhn (en)
  • A Question of Trust: Flood v. Kuhn and the Viability of Major League Baseball's Antitrust Exemption (en)
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  • カート・フラッド事件（カート・フラッドじけん , フラッド対キューン裁判とも）とは、1969年オフにMLBセントルイス・カージナルスに所属していたカート・フラッドがトレード移籍を拒否したことに始まる一連の係争の事である。球団と選手の契約に関する縛りがシャーマン法（反トラスト法＝独占禁止法）に違反するか否かが争われ、1972年に合衆国最高裁判所で選手側敗訴の評決が出た。 (ja)
  • Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258 (1972), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that preserved the reserve clause in Major League Baseball (MLB) players' contracts. By a 5–3 margin, the Court reaffirmed the antitrust exemption that had been granted to professional baseball in 1922 under Federal Baseball Club v. National League, and previously affirmed by Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. in 1953. While the majority believed that baseball's antitrust exemption was anomalous compared to other professional sports, it held that any changes to the exemption should be made through Congress and not the courts. (en)
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  • Flood v. Kuhn (en)
  • カート・フラッド事件 (ja)
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