15 U.S.C. § 1294
Section 1294 · Antitrust laws unaffected as regards to other activities of professional sports contests
This is the Sherman Antitrust Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Flood v. Kuhn (1972)
Most recently applied in Laumann v. National Hockey League (August 2014)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to change, determine, or otherwise affect the applicability or nonapplicability of the antitrust laws to any act, contract, agreement, rule, course of conduct, or other activity by, between, or among persons engaging in, conducting, or participating in the organized professional team sports of football, baseball, basketball, or hockey, except the agreements to which section 1291 of this title shall apply.
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References in Text
The antitrust laws, referred to in text, are classified generally to chapter 1 (§1 et seq.) of this title.