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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Federation of State High School Association (NFHS) set a new standard for non-wood baseball bats. Their goal was to ensure that aluminum and composite bats performed like wood bats in order to enhance player safety and reduce technology driven home runs and other big hits. Marucci Sports, LLC, makes non-wood bats. Under the new standard, four of Marucci’s eleven products were decertified for uis in high school and collegiate games. Marucci filed a suit against the NCAA and the NFHS under section 1 of the Sherman Act. At trial, Marccui’s evidence focused on injury to its own business. Did the NCAA and NFHS’s standard restrain trade in violation of the Sherman Act? Explain.

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Case Study:

In the given case, Marucci Sports manufactured eleven sport products and went to the certification of these to NCAA(National Collegiate Athletics Association) and NFHS(National Federation of State High School Association ). Which were decertified by NCAA and NFHS.

The provision of section 1 of The Sherman Antitrust Act,1890

Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act prohibits agreements in restraint of trade--such as price-fixing, refusals to deal, bid-rigging, etc. The parties involved might be competitors, customers, or a combination of the two. Although the law states that "every contract, combination,... or conspiracy in restraint of trade... is declared to be illegal", it has been interpreted by the courts to mean every contract, combination, or conspiracy unreasonably in restraint of trade. The courts have come to judge violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act by two approaches:

Conclusion

According to my study there is no violation as to restain of trade as NCAA and NFHS are not letting any injury to business by approving only 4 products. Restrain of trade is prohibiitng the later to close his area of operations but here they have only denied not to chose all the 11 products. The reason could be so many which may include safety of children playing and using those products.

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