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International Swimming League, LTD v. Federation Internationale De Natation
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3:18-cv-07394
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January 09, 2023
Swimming World Body Sinks Swimmers' Antitrust Suit
A California federal judge threw out a pair of lawsuits accusing swimming's international governing body of anti-competitively stifling a nascent swimming league, finding that rules barring national federations from working with "unapproved" leagues didn't affect swimmers and didn't stop competitions.
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February 03, 2022
Pro Swimmers' Class Certification Bid Meets Skeptical Judge
A California federal magistrate judge said Thursday that she was "troubled" by a proposed method for divvying up possible damages among professional swimmers seeking class certification in an antitrust suit alleging that swimming's international governing body is using its power to scuttle competitions planned by a nascent swimming league.
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April 08, 2021
Swimming League Suit's Discovery Brawl Irks Calif. Judge
A California federal judge grew irritated Thursday at lawyers fighting over depositions in an antitrust suit over Olympic swimming, telling them the case had "spun out of control" and to wrap up the contentious discovery.
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January 09, 2020
Swim League Says Org Can't Block New Antitrust Suit
A nascent swimming league wants a California federal court to let it update an antitrust lawsuit accusing swimming's international governing body of exerting its control to scuttle a competition in the country, arguing that amending the suit would cause "no possible cognizable prejudice."
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December 17, 2019
Global Swim Org. Can't Escape Claims It Sunk Competition
A California magistrate judge has kept alive a suit by international swimmers and a proposed swimming league claiming that swimming's international governing body used its control over U.S. Swimming to scuttle a competition in the U.S., ruling that the organization is not immune from U.S. antitrust law.
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April 26, 2019
FINA Can't Sink Swimming League Antitrust Suits, Court Told
Champion swimmers and a nascent swimming league have urged a California federal court not to toss their lawsuits accusing swimming's international governing body, FINA, of leveraging its power to shut down a competing event, arguing FINA cannot excise the cases simply because its conduct was international in scope.
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March 04, 2019
FINA Looks To Sink Swimming League Antitrust Suits
Swimming's international governing body, FINA, on Friday urged a California federal court to nix a pair of suits that accuse it of leveraging its power to shut down a new league's planned event, saying the matter is a foreign dispute that doesn't belong in U.S. courts.
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December 10, 2018
FINA Has Stranglehold On Swimming Competitions, Suit Says
Three international champion swimmers and the nascent International Swimming League have accused the Fédération Internationale de Natation, or FINA, of leveraging its power over access to the Olympics to crush the league's attempts to organize competitions.