NASL Files Federal Antitrust Lawsuit Against US Soccer

Have you tried CourtListener aka RECAP? If you have their extension, then whenever you download something from PACER, it’s uploaded to RECAP for everyone to view for free.

In other words, if you’ve been able to read a lot of the documents for free — you’re welcome!

 

I hope not.

 

From my reading of the ruling and Prof. Bank’s analysis of it, I think a lot of this stuff got kicked to the curb. The judge seemed extremely skeptical that the existence of PLS was a bad thing. Granted, a new judge is coming in, but I don’t think that means anything substantive changes.

 

I saw on the Rai (Italian TV) last week that Commisso is now back in America.

He only goes to Florence on occasion.

First to oversee the construction project and opening of the Viola Park training ground and secondly to watch Fiorentina in the Conference League along with a few league games.

I think he will be there more frequently during the summer transfer window to take over the duties of Fiorentina’s late GM Joe Barone who sadly passed in March of a cardiac arrest at 57.

 

I use PACER and Court Listener all the time and I have RECAP installed.

But if someone else hasn't downloaded a document from PACER, I'm not going to pay just so others can read it for free.

You're welcome Beau!

 

I noticed that as part of discovery NASL were looking for a ton of documents about Minnesota United, so it will be interesting to hear the full story if it comes out in court.

I doubt Minnesota would have stayed in NASL anyway.

 

Yeah, I think the court has already decided that PLS aren't anti-competitive.

 

Small update but appears the judge denied NASL’s motion to exclude evidence related to Davidson's and Traffic's indictments and convictions. Steven Banks has a whole break down of it on Twitter. Won’t let be post the link for some reason.

 

In the NASL antitrust suit v. USSF/MLS, the court issued, but kept private for now, an Order on the pre-trial motions. Here is what we know:
1. It denied NASL's motion to exclude evidence related to Davidson's and Traffic's indictments and convictions
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— Steven Bank (@ProfBank) October 29, 2024

 

In the NASL Antitrust case, the court agreed to limits on what the parties can/cannot refer to during trial. The theory is that referring to counts dismissed, past antitrust lawsuits against US Soccer, or the fact that the same lawyer brought all these cases might be prejudicial pic.twitter.com/ailhXRmU1Z

— Steven Bank (@ProfBank) November 13, 2024

 

So they're not going to be able to bring up that Kessler was the lead attorney on multiple other cases against MLS/US soccer.

 

This is still going on?

 

I have to imagine that with the Professional League Standards being put off limits, Jeffrey Kessler has got to know he doesn't have much of a case left. The whole thrust of this thing was that the USSF collided with MLS to set the PLS to purposefully exclude the NASL. Considering how the Fed bent over backwards to accommodate them, and the subsequent ability of the USL to use them, I don't know what's left, especially since they're allowing the Traffic convictions to be addressed.

 

The wheels of justice turn really slowly everywhere but on Law and Order.