Supreme Court Declines Case on Fantasy Sports

In the vain of "What will the government waste their time with next?" finally comes a story about the Supreme Court declining to hear a case between Major League Baseball and fantasy sports about licensing rights. The MLB was sued for denying a fantasy sports company, C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, a license to use the names of players saying they would be illegally profiting from the commercial use of a person's name.

With fantasy sports exponentially growing on a yearly basis, "A federal court and the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled in favor of the fantasy baseball business, saying that enforcing state law rights would violate C.B.C.'s right of free speech protected by the First Amendment."

Of course, this answer wasn't good enough for MLB, who tried to take the case to the Supreme Court but were flat-out denied. Interestingly enough, the NFL Player's Association supported MLB's request that the case be heard.

Weird that the NFL and MLB want the government's help now but continue trying to keep them out of other matters much more important to the fairness and legitimacy of their games and call those an intrusion on their private businesses. Can't have it both ways, fellas.