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Legality of Crossing the Line

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Legality of Crossing the Line
I am currently attempting to gather information concerning what would happen if a Japanese baseball player violated his contract in order to play in the States. In one of the postings (Oct. 12, 2002) [Link], you [Robert Whiting] wrote that you were waiting for the day that something like this may happen. There, you wrote that the team would naturally file an injunction in a U.S. Court, and that according to MLBPA lawyers, they would lose on anti-trust or constitutional grounds.

Do you have any specific information on the legal arguments that the MLBPA lawyers based their decision on? If not, is there any place I can go to find such information. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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