Justice Alito on the Antitrust Exemption

Fun report of a talk by Justice Samuel Alito, about the Supreme Court's 1922 decision in Federal Baseball Club v. National League, the case that first held that Major League Baseball was not covered by the Sherman Act (which, Alito argues, is not the same as giving it an antitrust exemption) and that was affirmed purely on stare decisis grounds in the more-famous Flood v. Kuhn.

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