{"id":1999753,"date":"2023-08-14T06:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-soccer-federation-seeks-supreme-court-relief-over-radical-antitrust-ruling\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T06:10:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T10:10:47","slug":"us-soccer-federation-seeks-supreme-court-relief-over-radical-antitrust-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-soccer-federation-seeks-supreme-court-relief-over-radical-antitrust-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soccer Federation appeals to Supreme Court for relief on &#8216;radical&#8217; antitrust ruling."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-soccer-federation-seeks-supreme-court-relief-over-radical-antitrust-ruling%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999753&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The United States Soccer Federation \u200bSeeks Relief from &#8220;Radical&#8221; Ruling<\/h2>\n<p>The United States Soccer Federation is making a bold move \u2063to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/personal-injury-lawyer-finds-a-new-practice-area-suing-for-kids-harmed-by-crt-in-schools\/\" title=\"Personal Injury Lawyer Finds A New Practice Area: Suing For Kids Harmed By CRT In Schools\">seek relief<\/a> from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-judge-ore-vaccinate-inmates-before-seniors-teachers\/\" title=\"U.S. Judge: Ore. vaccinate inmates before seniors, teachers\">recent ruling<\/a> that could \u2062have damaging consequences for\u200c the organization. U.S.\u2062 Soccer&#8217;s legal team at Latham &#038;\u2063 Watkins has filed a petition with the Supreme Court, challenging\u2062 a ruling by the U.S. Court \u2064of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The original 2018 lawsuit from Relevant focuses on a FIFA \u2064rule\u2062 that prohibits foreign\u200b soccer clubs from holding official matches in \u2064the United\u200c States. \u200dRelevant argues that this policy unfairly restricts competition and \u200cviolates U.S. \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-in-parler-sues-amazon-for-anti-trust-violations-breach-of-contract-asks-judge-to-reinstate-platform\/\" title=\"JUST IN: Parler Sues Amazon For Anti-Trust Violations, Breach of Contract, Asks Judge to Reinstate Platform\">antitrust law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Relevant Sports, based in New York,\u2062 wants U.S. Soccer&#8217;s\u200c approval to host official games on\u200d American soil, including a match between Girona FC and FC \u200dBarcelona from Spain&#8217;s La Liga. In addition,\u2064 U.S. Soccer is accused of trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-push-to-rein-in-big-tech-as-federal-gears-grind-slow\/\" title=\"States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow\">stifle competition<\/a> with Major League Soccer, the country&#8217;s\u2064 top \u2064domestic league.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u200c 2nd \u2063Circuit ruled in\u200d favor of Relevant, allowing them to \u200cproceed with \u2063their antitrust conspiracy lawsuit \u2064against U.S.\u200d Soccer. \u2063The court stated that since U.S. Soccer \u200bis \u200ba member of\u2063 FIFA\u200d and has agreed to its rules, Relevant&#8217;s lawsuit can move forward.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gregory Garre, representing Latham &#038; Watkins, warns that the 2nd Circuit&#8217;s decision\u200d is\u200c &#8220;radical&#8221; and \u2063could have far-reaching \u2064consequences if it stands. In the petition filed with the Supreme Court, Garre argues that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-soccer-federation-seeks-supreme-court-relief-over-radical-antitrust-ruling\/\" title=\"US Soccer Federation appeals to Supreme Court for relief on 'radical' antitrust ruling.\">ruling \u2062puts numerous membership associations<\/a> at\u200b risk\u2063 and disrupts long-standing \u2063principles of antitrust law.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c case, known as\u2063 United States Soccer Federation \u200cInc v. Relevant Sports, requires respondents to submit their filing by September 7. The Supreme Court will\u2064 not \u200bconsider \u200bthe case until at \u200bleast the end of September, and\u2064 it will require the votes \u2062of at least four justices to\u200d grant \u200ca review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Soccer Federation is seeking relief from the Supreme Court to avoid potential damages caused by a &#8220;radical&#8221; ruling. Latham &amp; Watkins, representing US Soccer, filed a petition challenging the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals&#8217; decision that favored Relevant Sports, a New York-based plaintiff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}