The DOJ filed a statement of interest on Wednesday in a suit being brought by four minor league teams jointly represented by Berg & Androphy and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP against MLB over the realignment of baseball’s minor league system that stripped 40 clubs of their big league affiliations. * * * The DOJ’s statement...
Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees and Houston Astros must face lawsuits over their decisions to cut ties with minor league affiliates as part of a reorganization, a New York appeals court said Tuesday. The opinion by a five-judge panel of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department affirmed rulings...
Nostalgic Partners LLC, owners of the Yankees’ former Staten Island affiliate, and the Tri-City ValleyCats, located in Troy, New York, both of which are represented by Berg & Androphy and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, sued MLB and its former affiliated big-league clubs in December 2020 and January 2021. The suits alleged the clubs breached...
Open Markets Institute argued in its amicus brief on Monday that the justices should do what the high court did in its 2014 decision in Lexmark International v. Static Control Components, a case involving standing to bring false advertising claims under the Lanham Act. There, the brief said, the court found plaintiffs have standing when...
The city of Oakland, California, is not giving up its fight over the loss of the NFL’s Raiders franchise, which moved to Las Vegas in 2020, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive antitrust claims against the team and the league. * * * A Ninth Circuit panel tossed the claims in December, saying Oakland...
Four minor league teams ousted by Major League Baseball urged a Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday to put the case on track for an appeal challenging the sport’s century-old antitrust exemption. * * * “Because MLB is terrified of the possibility of Supreme Court review, it half-heartedly pitches a hodgepodge of non-immunity defenses, hoping one...
From Forbes A lawsuit has been filed against Major League Baseball’s long-held antitrust exemption that could have profound consequences to the league. The law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges is suing the league in response to the takeover of Minor League Baseball saying that MLB is positioning itself to control all facets of baseball....
From Bleacher Report One year after Major League Baseball eliminated 40 minor league teams, a lawsuit has been filed in response to that decision that challenges the league’s antitrust exemption. Per Alex Hubbard of Law360.com, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Berg & Androphy filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on behalf of four...
From AP News NEW YORK (AP) — Four minor league teams that lost their big league affiliations before the 2021 season have filed an antitrust lawsuit against Major League Baseball, using a law firm that has represented players’ unions. Parent companies of the Staten Island Yankees, Tri-City Valley Cats, Norwich Sea Unicorns and Salem-Keizer Volcanoes...
From CBS Sports Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption is facing a new legal test. On Monday, lawyers representing the parent companies of four former minor-league teams (the Staten Island Yankees, Tri-City Valley Cats, Norwich Sea Unicorns, and Salem-Keizer Volcanoes) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging MLB’s commissioner’s office of violating the Sherman Act....
