Business Associations

Resource 3 . 4 . 1 . 3 . 1

9 minutes

Parrish v. National Football League Players Ass'n

Paul Weitzel,

Paige G. DuRandt,

Lauren M. Kubat,

Jacob H. Owens, CPA

A labor union (NFLPA) owned a company (Players, Inc.) that told vendors that it alone controlled licensing rights to the names, images and likenesses of retired pro football players. Does that create agency by estoppel? In the case below, a few former players sued the union after they went years without getting paid.

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

534 F. Supp. 2d 1081

No. C 07-00943 WHA

2007-09-06

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