HAWKINS v. NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Civ. No. 66-1320.

288 F.Supp. 614 (1968)

Cornelius HAWKINS, a/k/a Connie Hawkins, Plaintiff, v. NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION, an unincorporated association, J. Walter Kennedy, individually and as President of the National Basketball Association, Boston Celtics Basketball Club, an unincorporated Massachusetts trust, Zollner Corporation, a corporation, Cincinnati Basketball Club Co., a corporation, California Sports, Incorporated, a corporation, Madison Square Garden Corporation, a corporation, St. Louis Hawks Basketball Club, Inc., a corporation, Chicago Professional Basketball Corporation, a corporation, San Francisco Warriors, a partnership, the Baltimore Bullets Basketball Club, Inc., a corporation, and Riko Enterprises, Inc., a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Pennsylvania.

August 30, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roslyn M. Litman, and Howard A. Specter, of Litman, Litman & Harris, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.

John G. Buchanan, Jr., of Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald, Kyle & Buerger, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

MARSH, District Judge.

The plaintiff commenced a civil antitrust suit against the defendants requesting an injunction, a jury trial for treble damages, and alleging a conspiracy in violation of the anti-trust laws to bar him from player membership in the National Basketball Association. The alleged conspiracy began in November, 1963, and the plaintiff claims he sustained financial injury through the defendants' violation of the Sherman...

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