I hope my blog has provided a great deal of useful legal information to anyone who may be interested in the legal side of sports. This blog helped me further understand what I have learned throughout my tenure as a Contract Law student. It also will allow me to apply many teachings I took away from this course to my day to day life as a sport manager.
A great quote I once heard from someone I know was that law is not black and white, but is in fact very grey. I was not entirely sure what this meant until I took this class. I always figured law was just set rules and regulations that dictated what was right and wrong. I now see this is definitely not the case at all. As you can see from the case scenarios I discussed in my blog, many court decisions have certain exceptions, and sometimes it's very hard to interpret contracts for the way they are written. Other times, common law cases are brought into court discussions to help argue someone's case.
With every new contractual issue solved in a court room, contracts start to become more developed, and so does the law. The Philadelphia Ball Club v. Lajoie case is perhaps the earliest example of a negative injunction ruling in professional sports, and this case was probably referred to many times in future injunction hearings in sport. Although Curt Flood lost his case regarding free agency, his trail created a path for Messersmith and McNally to win their own a few years later.
Contracts today still continue to become more developed, and there is no limit to how much more they can continue to progress.
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