WASHINGTON – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who in 1995 earned the title of "savior of baseball" as the judge who ended a lengthy players’ strike, will revisit the legal issues surrounding the sport next month.
Sotomayor is set to preside over a reenactment on May 22 of Flood v. Kuhn, 407 U.S. 258, the 1972 decision that upheld Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption as an "established aberration" that needed to be upheld out of respect for precedent. The case was brought by St. Louis Cardinals player Curt Flood, who challenged rules that kept him from being a "free agent" in making decisions about his career.
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