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  • The Inbox - June 15, 2012

    | Zuckerman Spaeder Team

    • A federal trial court in Minnesota has dismissed an antitrust action filed by former football players against the NFL.  The players alleged that the NFL is monopolizing the market of their likenesses by using historical game footage featuring the players in promotional videos.  The court distinguished the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in American Needle, Inc. v. NFL,saying that the former football players failed to allege concerted action between the NFL and the teams that is illegal under the Sherman Act.  The court suggested that, even though the antitrust action would not go forward, the players may have claims against the NFL for violating their right of publicity.   
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  • The latest developments in suits by suits:

    • When Brian Wittenstein left his job as talent coordinator at Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling for TNA’s competitor, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), he apparently took a lot of TNA confidential information with him.  Now TNA is brawling with WWE and Wittenstein in court.   TNA’s lawsuit acknowledges that WWE told TNA that Wittenstein had given it the confidential information and fired him.  But TNA alleges that WWE conspired with Wittenstein to get the documents, delayed for three weeks before it told TNA about the disclosures, and is now using the secret details of Nature Boy Ric Flair’s contract to solicit him to join WWE.  PWInsider.com.
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  • The Inbox - May 25, 2012

    | Zuckerman Spaeder Team

    This week in suits by suits (and jerseys):

    • Ellen Pao, a partner in the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has filed a lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination and retaliation.  Pao alleges that she was pressured to have sex with one partner and propositioned by another.  According to Pao, when she reported her complaints to the firm's senior partnership, they retaliated by giving her a smaller share of firm profits, removing her from the board of a startup, and tried to banish her to their China office.
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  • Here's a roundup of this week's news involving suits by suits:

    • An insurance company can’t subpoena its former employees’ private e-mail and phone records from Yahoo and Verizon, says a U.S. magistrate judge. Judge Geraldine Brown ruled that the subpoenas violated the Stored Communications Act, which she said creates a zone of privacy to protect against disclosure to unauthorized parties. If the employees’ Yahoo inboxes are anything like mine, the subpoenas would have just turned up a bunch of spam anyway.  Courthouse News Service.
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