GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS CASES

• Hamilton County Bd. of Comm'rs v. Nat'l Football League
• US v. Rockwell Int'l Corp.

U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, June 19, 2007
Hamilton County Bd. of Comm'rs v. Nat'l Football League, No. 06-3348
In a suit brought by a county Board of Commissioners against the Cincinnati Bengals, the NFL and its other teams, alleging they violated the federal antitrust laws by using a monopoly over professional football to obtain a heavily subsidized lease for the Bengals' new stadium at the expense of the county and its taxpayers, summary judgment for the NFL defendants is affirmed where: 1) the county filed the suit after the four-year limitations period had run; 2) the county failed to demonstrate that tolling should apply due to defendants' allegedly fraudulent concealment of material information regarding the antitrust claim; and 3) the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying county's motion for additional discovery. Read more...

U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, June 18, 2007
US v. Rockwell Int'l Corp., No. 99-1351, 99-1352, 99-1353
On remand from the Supreme Court, which reversed the portion of the circuit court's prior judgment for plaintiff, judgment in favor of the U.S. is affirmed and the matter remanded for the reasons stated in the circuit court's prior panel opinion, US v. Rockwell Int'l Corp., 282 F.3d 787 (10th Cir. 2002). Read more...