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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard an apparel company's challenge to the National Football League's business practices -- a case that could have implications for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which filed a friend of the court brief supporting the NFL in the case. The lawsuit in question, which was brought by a company called American Needle, revolves around whether the NFL can operate as a single business entity or whether it is made of of 32 individual companies (its teams). The outcome in the case could have implications for organizations like the NCAA, which have sometimes sought exemption from federal antitrust laws both to protect themselves from antitrust lawsuits and to give them expanded power to adopt rules that limit the authority of coaches and others (see related article).
