 Both the district court in Los Angeles and the Ninth Circuit relied on "Federal Baseball Club" in ruling for the defendants.The Supreme Court granted "certiorari" to hear it and consider a number of other cases by former Mexican League players pending at the appellate level.Among the lawyers working on the case for baseball was Bowie Kuhn, then of the prestigious firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, who would later himself become baseball commissioner and the respondent in "Flood v. Kuhn", the next case to challenge the reserve clause.