[20040412]98-820_《1998年短期洪水法》：联邦反托拉斯法在棒球大联盟球员中的应用.pdf

1 See S.Rept. 105-118. The measure passed the House, without any report, under suspension.2 The bill itself directed that the new section is to be added at the end of the existing Clayton Act,but discussion with staff at the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time of passage confirmed thatthe section was, in fact, to be inserted between section 26a and the then-existing section 27(severability clause), which was to be (and has since been) renumbered as section 28. In fact, thenew section has been codified as 15 U.S.C. 26b, pursuant to editorial “redesignation,”according to a Note in the 2003 Supplement to the volume containing 15 U.S.C. 8-40. Order Code 98-820 AUpdated April 12, 2004 “Curt Flood Act of 1998: Application of Federal Antitrust Laws to Major League Baseball Players-name redacted-Legislative AttorneyAmerican Law DivisionSummaryThe “Curt Flood Act of 1998(S. 53, 105th Congress)1 was narrowly directed ataltering just one aspect of the anomalous situation under which professional baseballoperates with an “exemption” from the antitrust laws. The measure added a new section( 26b)2 to the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12 et seq.) to clarify that major league baseballplayers would be