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US Soccer, MLS defeat suit filed by North American Soccer League

By Samuel Rubenfeld and Khushita Vasant ( February 3, 2025, 20:18 GMT | Insight) -- The US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer defeated a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by a defunct soccer league that had claimed it was blocked from competing in the market. After a roughly three-week trial and about 90 minutes of deliberation, the jury in Brooklyn, New York, federal court found that the North American Soccer League (NASL) had failed to prove the existence of a relevant antitrust market for men’s professional soccer leagues in the US and Canada. The US Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer prevailed against a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by a defunct soccer league that claimed it was blocked from competing in the market....

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