WSJ Law Blog describes a high-tech faceoff in a Manhattan federal court between the New York Rangers and the National Hockey League:
Broadway Blues ... filed an interesting lawsuit last week against the NHL. The team (which is owned by Madison Square Garden which is owned by Cablevision) alleges that the league has become an “illegal cartel” in its efforts to control licensing efforts, advertising, broadcasting and the team’s Web site.
Says the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan: “[The NHL] has inappropriately and illiegally claimed and usurped more and more control over what have been and should be independent competitive activities of the individual clubs. The Rangers said they filed the lawsuit after the league threatened to impose a $100,000-a-day fine unless it transferred virtually complete control of the Rangers’s Web site. The NHL had no comment on the lawsuit.
I presume the Rangers have asked the Court to penalize the league with somewhat more than two minutes for interference...
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UPDATE: October 23, 2007
More discussion on the Rangers' lawsuit: Rangers' lawsuit weaves a tangled web
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
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