The Wall Street Journal Law Blog asks, "Would an All-White Professional Basketball League be Legal?" Apparently, someone wants to start a professional basketball league limited to "players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race . . . ."
Yikes!
Sports agent Jason Wolf, in a post linked to by the WSJ Law blog, suggests the legality of the league's structure is questionable. Also linked is a law.com blog post by Eric Lipman, which raises the question of whether this is nothing more than a hoax (NBC thinks not).
Bearing in mind the possibility that this is nothing more than a joke, I'd say Title VII, not to mention various state anti-discrimination laws and a disastrously immoral business model, will likely make this league a no-go.
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