Denver Rockets v. All-Pro Management, Inc.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW IN RESPECT TO CROSS-CLAIMANT’S MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST CROSS-DEFENDANT NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

This matter came on for hearing on January 18,1971, pursuant to the Court’s Order to Show Cause re Preliminary In junction and Temporary Restraining Order and Order Shortening Time made on January 14,1971, on the Motion of Cross-claimant Spencer Haywood (“Haywood”) for a Preliminary Injunction Against the National Basketball Association (“NBA”) as prayed for in his Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and for Order to Show Cause re Preliminary Injunction filed January 14, 1971. The Court, having considered the verified Amended Counter-claim and Cross-claim, the Affidavits in Support of the Motion and the Affidavits in Opposition Thereto, and having heard argument in open Court, and having considered all of the evidence presented in prior hearings in this matter, and having considered the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law proposed by Haywood, the written response of NBA to such proposed Findings and Conclusions and the Supplemental Proposals of Haywood, and having heard argument in open court on January 29, 1971,…