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VKK CORP. v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

No. 94 Civ. 8335(MP).

55 F.Supp.2d 229 (1999)

VKK CORPORATION, VKK Patriots, Inc., Victor K. Kiam II, Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, B & B Holdings, Inc., The Five Smiths, Inc.; Buffalo Bills, Inc., The Chicago Bears Football Bears Club, Inc., Cincinnati Bengals, Inc., Cleveland Browns Football Co., Dallas Cowboys Football, Inc., PDB Sports Inc., The Detroit Lions, Inc., The Green Bay Packers, Inc., Houston Oilers, Inc., Indianapolis Colts, Inc., Kansas City Chiefs Football Club, Inc., Miami Dolphins, Ltd., Minnesota Vikings Football Club, Inc., New York Football Giants, Inc., New York Jets Football Club, Inc., Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc., San Diego Chargers Football Co., Seattle Seahawks, Inc., Tampa Bay Area NFL Football, Inc., Pro-Football, Inc., Touchdown Jacksonville, Ltd., and Touchdown Jacksonville, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

June 28, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams & Connolly, (Steven R. Kuney, Mark S. Levinstein and Kevin, Downey, of counsel), Washington, D.C., Kramer, Levin, Naftalis, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel, LLP, (Robert M. Heller, of counsel), New York City, for plaintiffs.

Covington & Burling, (Gregg H. Levy, of counsel), Washington, D.C., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, (Shepard Goldfein, of counsel), New York City, Foley & Lardner, Co-Counsel for Jacksonville Jaguars, Ltd. f/k/a Touchdown Jacksonville, Ltd., (Steven Werber, Chanley Howell, of counsel), Jacksonville, FL, for NFL and Member Team, defendants.

Bledsoe, Schmidt, Lippes & Moonly, P.A., (Terrence E. Schmidt, of counsel), Jacksonville, FL, Cooperman, Levitt, Winikoff, Lester & Newman, P.C., (Allen G. Reit, of counsel), New York City, for defendant Touchdown Jacksonville, Inc.

Decision on Defendants' Counterclaims and Sanctions

POLLACK, Senior District Judge.

Decision

Essentially, the only open matters to be decided to reach finality are the questions of the recovery of costs and expenses claimed by defendants in counterclaims against plaintiffs for contract breach, and sanctions against the plaintiffs' attorneys.

The questions are raised (1) by the Counterclaims of defendants cast in form of breach of contract...

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