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      "title": "\"Curt Flood Act of 1998\": Application of Federal Antitrust Laws to Major League Baseball Players",
      "summary": "The \"Curt Flood Act of 1998\"( S. 53 , 105th Congress)  (1)  was\nnarrowly directed at altering\njust one aspect of the anomalous situation under which professional baseball operates with an\n\"exemption\" from the antitrust laws. The measure added a new section (Section 26b)  (2)  to the\nClayton Act (15 U.S.C. Sections 12  et seq. ) to clarify that major league baseball players\nwould be\ncovered under the federal antitrust laws to the same extent as are other professional athletes, and\ndefined \"major league baseball players\" as persons who are or were parties to major league players'\ncontracts. It specifically did not purport to affect in any way,  inter alia : (1) professional\nbaseball's\nrelations with \"organized professional minor league baseball\"; or (2) \"the agreement between\norganized professional major league baseball teams and the National Association of Professional\nBaseball Leagues (\"Professional Baseball Agreement\"). Questions concerning whether the measure\nwill be of substantial efficacy, however, remain, primarily owing to the existence of the judicially\ncreated labor-antitrust doctrine. \n     1.  \u00a0 See   S.Rept. 105-118 . The measure passed\nthe House, without any report, under suspension.\n  2.  \u00a0The bill itself directed that the new section is to be added at the\nend of the existing Clayton Act, but\ndiscussion with staff at the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time of passage confirmed that the\nsection was,\nin fact, to be inserted between section 26a and the then-existing section 27 (severability clause),\nwhich was\nto be (and has since been) renumbered as section 28. In fact, the new section has been codified as\n15 U.S.C.\nSection 26b, pursuant to editorial \"redesignation,\" according to a Note in the 2003 Supplement to\nthe volume\ncontaining 15 U.S.C. Section Section 8-40.",
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