The federal district court in Northern Illinois, where the case was remanded after the U.S. Supreme Court found that the NFL was considered 32 separate teams rather than a single entity, denied summary judgment motions by both plaintiff American Needle and the defendants which include the NFL, its teams and Reebok. The court has offered to mediate the dispute, suggesting that it felt neither side had a strong enough legal argument to prevail at trial.

The American Needle motion was denied because the court believed that the NFL had plausible evidence that the exclusive licensing arrangement with Reebok, which it signed ... Log in to view full article.