| US Soccer Is Sued For
Conspiring With FIFA To Blocking Foreign
Official Matches in US
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
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Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 17 – U.S. Soccer
Federation is being sued for
anti-competitive collusion
with FIFA to block Relevant
Sports LLC from sponsoring
games including of La Liga
players in the US.
On
June 17 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Valerie E.
Caproni held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered it.
Among the questions was
whether FIFA constitutes an
indispensable party under Rule
19(b).
Judge
Caproni asking about remedies;
she said, The competition that
is being thwarted is the
competition that would
otherwise be provided to US
soccer teams by foreign teams
being permitted to play in the
US - there is a separate
market for friendlies.
Judge
Caproni asked plaintiffs'
lawyer: Your Ecuadorian match,
you could have gone forward,
no?
The lawyer
answered, They said, only if
you get USSF sanction. FIFA
does not sanction in US, it
authorizes USSF as
co-conspirator to sanction.
The case is
Relevent Sports, LLC v. United
States Soccer Federation,
Inc., 19-cv-8359
(Caproni).
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