U.S. Supreme Court to hear American Needle v. NFL on January 13, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court released its January calendar today, and announced that American Needle v. NFL will be heard on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (h/t Ryan Rodenberg of Legal Aspects of Sports Blog). For past Sports Law Blog coverage on the case, click here. For links to various amicus briefs and other court materials, click here.

For related scholarship on this case, see:

• Marc Edelman, Why the 'Single Entity' Defense Can Never Apply to NFL Clubs: A Primer on Property Rights Theory in Professional Sports, 18 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (2008)

• Gabriel Feldman, The Puzzling Persistence of the Single Entity Argument for Sports Leagues: American Needle and the Supreme Court's Opportunity to Reject a Flawed Defense, 2009 Wisconsin Law Review __ (forthcoming, 2009)

• Nathaniel Grow, There’s No ‘I’ in ‘League’: Professional Sports Leagues and the Single Entity Defense, 105 Michigan Law Review 183 (2006)

• Michael McCann, American Needle v. NFL: An Opportunity to Reshape Sports Law, 119 Yale Law Journal __ (forthcoming, 2009)