The newly appointed Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, has already made a name for herself in the world of sports.Baseball
In 1995, she issued the injunction that ended the Major League Baseball players' strike hours before replacement players were to take the field in official regular-season games.
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When Maurice Clarett challenged the NFL's draft-eligibility rules and tried to enter the 2004 draft, Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled against Clarett, and upheld the NFL's minimum age requirement.
After being ruled ineligible for his sophomore season in 2003, Clarett, then a star running back at Ohio State, attempted to enter the 2004 draft in spite of an NFL rule that prohibits players from being drafted until they've been out of high school at least three years. A U.S. District Court ruled that the NFL's rule violated federal anti-trust law, but Sotomayor and her panel blocked that ruling, instead ruling that labor law in this case trumped anti-trust law and that unions had the right to collectively bargain this sort of age restriction with an employer.
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