sample questions Flashcards
T/F: temporary replacement players may be utilized in a strike for economic reasons
true (unfair labor practice)
T/F: the sharing of all revenues, on a totally equal basis will cause that league to be treated as a single entity?
False (you have to share revenue)
As a general rule when labor law and anti trust law conflict in the market, will anti trust prevail?
Yes
T/F a commissioner’s arbitration ruling may be properly reversed on the merits by the appellate court if the court overturn unanimously
False
At expiration of the CBA, all mandatory terms therein initially remain in full force and expire when both sides declare impasse?
F they never expire
when a professional sports team breaches its lease with a stadium, absent any condition therein, may the lessor in addition to damages obtain an injunction to prevent the team from leaving?
No, the only time they can get an injunction is to prevent a team from leaving if you have a clause in the lease
in a compromised salary arbitration, must the arbitrator take the average from the team offer or play offer, where in final offer arbitration it is either one or the other?
false with compromised salary arbitration, the arbitrator is free to pick any number between the two numbers
when a decertified player association continues to negotiate with the league, those negotiations are an unfair labor practice even if the association was decertified at the commencement of negotiations
True Classic example after the strike of 1987
the NLE cannot be terminated prior to the league and the player’s association reaching impasse?
false you can decertify anytime
a validly executed player contract which the league refused to validate becomes voidable?
False It’s not voidable but the guy can’t play
while players are not paid when they voluntarily go on strike, are they paid during a lockout?
no
all decisions of the NLRB are appealed to a board in Washington D.C. and then to the federal board
F organizational decision are appealed only to the board in Washington D.C. where unfair labor practice decisions to the court
blackout requirement in pro sports broadcasting of a non sell-out 72 hrs prior to the start of the even is required due to the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1974
False, it wasn’t the act, it was the compromise between the league and congress rather than interpretation of the act
a league commissioner will uphold a negative covenant payment to a former sports executive if the covenant was reasonable as to time and geographic range
False, negative covenants are not allowed for sports executives
a signing bonus to an NFL player is 5 annual payment coinciding with the contract that guarantees it even if if he is cut
True signing bonuses are guaranteed
