Its most important and unique financial regulation is the ownership clause that ties teams to the local community.

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But the dormant Commerce Clause runs smack into the principles of states' rights and local control that conservatives normally support.

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In Massachusetts, the National Association of Government Employees Local 282 has been one the first unions in the country to include an anti-bullying clause in collective bargaining agreements.

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