Cliff note version of Sports law here : labor law favors collective bargaining between employer groups (NFL owners) and employee groups (NFL players).

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In the event that there is a proper banking union in the eurozone, and that the eurozone's crisis subsides - which may seem an absurd idea, but stranger things have happened - international investors would at that point note that the eurozone's banks were in effect insured or guaranteed by the collective resources of all eurozone countries, including mighty Germany.

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