He later filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL and the Browns, alleging "that there was a conspiracy between the Cleveland Browns, the National Football League and its fifteen teams to deny him employment because of his expression of his political views and his race." In 1971, the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York denied the defendants' motion to transfer the case's venue from New York to Ohio. The lawsuit was settled in 1975, with Beach receiving back pay and his pension (which had been denied).
