Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "Why can't we sit down with an arbitration board, honestly state our difficulties and try to find a method sound procedure? » Mrs. Roosevelt said they should bring in a third party to help them resolve disputes professionally. The relationship between this quote and labor disputes in major league sports is the league and players tend to go to court to try to resolve their disputes. However, leagues have become accustomed to going to court to resolve their disputes and do not attempt to resolve small disputes personally. Therefore, government intervention should be limited in labor disputes in the major leagues. First, government intervention in the major leagues poses problems because judges do not always label disputes correctly. Some of the federal laws that determine how labor disputes are classified are the National Labor Relations Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Act, and the Norris LaGuardia Act. However, in the article "Federal Jurisdiction in Sports Labor Disputes" by labor and employment relations professor Michael LeRoy, labor disputes in sports are often governed by antitrust law rather than the labor law. As a result, judges do not always read cases correctly and, in turn, they mischaracterize antitrust cases. When court systems classify disputes as antitrust, judges typically dismiss the cases. However, the Clayton Act organizes labor under antitrust laws in a poor way, causing more problems than it solves, according to LeRoy's article "Federal Jurisdiction in Labor Disputes in sport”. Therefore, the Clayton Act was not well written as it caused more problems than it solved...... middle of article ......urnal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 2013. Accessed February 10, 2014. Academic Elite.___ “There Is No “I” in “League”: Professional Sports Leagues and the Single Entity Defense,” Michigan Law Review, 2006. Accessed February 10, 2014. Academic Elite. LeRoy, Michael. “Federal Jurisdiction in Sports Labor Disputes.” Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012. Accessed February 10, 2012. 2014. Academic Elite.___ “The Narcotic Effect of Antitrust Law in Professional Sports: How the Sherman Act Subverts Collective Bargaining.” Champaign: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011. Accessed February 10, 2014. Academic Elite. Macaray, David. “What's the Future of Unions: America Needs Unions to Counter Big Business Power,” in Labor Unions, edited by Noel Merino, 99-104. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Greenhaven Press, 2012.