CorvusRexus
The Raven King
- Mar 6, 2014
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What part of the NBA being a private business confuses you? How has his 1st Amendment rights been abridged?
In that philosophy, Commissioner Silver is a CEO, the players and coaches are employees, and owners are like investors. Can a private business force an investor to sell his stock after it has already been bought, fine him, and ban him from that business forever?
You dont understand.
Commissioner Silver is acting in accordance with the NBA constitution, a constitution that gives him the authority to do exactly what he did, a constitution that authorizes the other owners to force Sterling out, and a constitution that Sterling agreed to abide by as a condition of becoming an NBA owner.
Again, this is a private entity, made up of private companies that can draw up bylaws, constitutions, and contractual agreements anyway they wish, and subject members to any punitive measure the organization deems appropriate, however unwarranted and capricious you might perceive it to be.
Its call the right to free association, the part of the First Amendment thats relevant in this case.
So I can make a private institution and write a "Constitution" that supersedes the national one, yet I seem to recall you saying a local or state government couldn't pass laws nullifying federal ones? Are private institutions really more powerful than state or local governments?