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Baseball owners and players appeared before a House committee today, where players pledged to return to the field if Congress passed legislation making baseball accountable under antitrust laws. Baseball has enjoyed a 72-year exemption, a privilege not extended to any other sport. Members of the committee had harsh words for both sides, criticizing them for putting business over an obligation to the fans. But Democrat Jack Brooks of Texas agreed to push for a bill that would allow for players to sue, instead of strike, if owners impose a salary...
...Congress yank the antitrust exemption--do you feel that you can trust either side...
...leaders made approving noises about such rules at first -- until they realized that the authority and dominance of doctors would be diluted as chiropractors and everyone else followed them into the plans. So now the A.M.A. is taking another tack. It is asking the Clinton Justice Department for special "antitrust" exemptions that would allow doctors simultaneously to maintain their practices as separate businesses while also banding together in order to bargain for patients with local health plans...
...settlement, announced December 22, 1993, ended more than two years of litigation in an antitrust suit which charged MIT with joining the eight Ivy League schools to fix the prices of college educations...
Breyer's critics consider him brilliant but passionless, given to formulas and fine distinctions but lacking an overall vision of the Constitution. "It was no coincidence," says a colleague on the Harvard Law faculty, "that he only taught antitrust and administrative law." (Breyer also carved out a course area for himself in economic regulation.) As a judge he has shown little interest in such issues as civil rights, privacy or the First Amendment, which have provided most of the fireworks on the high court for the past four decades. The First Circuit of Appeals in Boston, where he sits...