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In 2004, Maurice Clarett filed a suit against the National Football League claiming that the National Football League’s Eligibility Rules violated antitrust laws. The National Football League had instituted a rule that limited “eligibility to players three seasons removed from their high school graduation." Clarett claimed that he is ready, willing and able to play in the National Football League and that his exclusion violates the antitrust laws, that were set up by the National Football League. The Antitrust Law is defined by West’s Encyclopedia of American Law as,
“Legislation enacted by the federal and various state governments to regulate trade and commerce by preventing unlawful restraints, price-fixing, and monopolies, to promote competition, and to encourage the production of quality goods and services at the lowest prices, with the primary goal of safeguarding public welfare by ensuring that consumer demands will be met by the manufacture and sale of goods at reasonable prices. Antitrust law seeks to make business compete fairly"