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U.S. Supreme Court

Jun. 1, 2012

Flood v. Kuhn Part 2: the 40th anniversary of justice versus law

Curt Flood's Supreme Court case was the beginning of the end of the Big League's infamous "reserve clause." By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm

By Dan Lawton

Yesterday, in part one of this essay, the author reviewed the history of Curt Flood's challenge to baseball's reserve clause, which wended its way to the Supreme Court forty years ago, in 1972, in Flood v. Kuhn. Today he discusses the aftermath and legacy of the Flood case and of Curt Flood himself.

Stare decisis trumps justice and sense in the Supreme Court.

On March 20, 1972, former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg stepped to th...

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