Jake Kobrick

The NFL's control over entertainment.

The controversy between players and owners frequently brought baseball into the federal courts between the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries.

The US government broke up AT&T's monopoly over the telecom industry through an antitrust case in 1984, leading to a transformation of communication.

Elkison v. Deliesseline presented a federal court with the question of whether a state could incarcerate and enslave a free subject of a foreign government.

The study of circuit riding helps to highlight the importance of the lower federal courts in American legal history.