Short assignment 1: Flood v. Kuhn
An application of the assignment of property rights

Step 1: Read each of the following Supreme Court cases (online):
	1.	Federal Baseball Club of Baltimore, Inc. v. National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, et al. (1922)
	2.	Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc., et al. (1953)
	3.	Flood v. Kuhn et al. (1972)

Step 2: Prepare a "legal brief" for the Supreme Court decision in the Flood v. Kuhn case. (See template for items to include in your brief, but structure your brief as a paper, not as a filled-out form. See the Sony case example as well.)
	a.	Your brief should be typewritten.
	b.	Detailed information should be double-spaced, with reasonable margins and font size (preferably Times New Roman, 12 point).
	c.	Your brief should be three-to-five pages in length.
	d.	Apply the following guidelines to the economic analysis section of your brief:
		(1)	For the context of your analysis, consider a situation in which the Supreme Court in Flood v. Kuhn had been "considering the question of baseball for the first time upon a clean slate."
		(2)	Focus on the allocative efficiency consequences of the two options available to the Supreme Court for assigning the property rights to player contracts: option 1: rule in favor of the reserve clause and assign the rights to team owners, versus option 2: rule against the reserve clause and assign the rights to baseball players themselves.

Step 3: Submit you brief.
	a.	Submit two copies:
		(1)	a hard copy, including a title page listing the names of the members of your legal team.
		(2)	an electronic copy without names, submitted as an email attachment.
	b.	I will post the submitted briefs online.
	c.	I will evaluate your brief for both content and writing. That is:
		(1)	I will evaluate the quality of the analysis and support you present, and
		(2)	I will evaluate your writing skills, including organization, paragraph structure, mechanics, tone, etc.