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This was designed to boost prices to a level that would alleviate rural poverty and restore profitability to American agriculture.

Describe the importance of the Steelworkers’ trilogy of cases regarding courts’ enforcement of arbitration decisions and cite a sports law case from the course that relies upon the holding from the trilogy.  

What does it mean to be an exempt employee under the FLSA? What are the three tests used to determine whether an employee is classified as exempt? (Include descriptions of each test.) 

List and describe the two kinds of employment relationships that can exist. What kind of relationship do coaches usually have with their employers? Identify and describe at least 5 standard provisions in coaches’ contracts. 

Describe the sport’s commissioner’s authority and examine how it can be affected by a collective bargaining agreement, providing examples. 

Examine the relationship between the Federal Baseball (1922) case and the Curt Flood Act of 1998.

Where did the Japanese attack the American Pacific Fleet at 7:48 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, resulting in the deaths of thousands of American troops, causing the United States to enter WWII?

Which of the following dictators created the Fascist movement in Italy?

What Japanese city did American forces dropped the second atomic bomb on, forcing Japan to surrender days later?

What was the name given to Hitler and Nazi’s finial solution or extermination if the Jewish people in Europe?  Jews were loaded up like cattle into train cars, some were sent to labor camps, and others were exterminated by the gas chamber, killing approximately 11 million in the camps.