In another case involving minor league teams, attorneys will soon ask Supreme Court to hear a case challenging MLB's antitrust exemption.
the league in separate cases. Both teams had lost their affiliation before the 2021 season when MLB cut 40 teams from its minor league system. Combined, the two minor league teams are seeking damages north of $30 million.Among the issues that a jury would decide is whether MLB, the Tigers or the Astros are liable for what’s known as tortious interference.
“When Major League Baseball created their ‘120 plan’ to eliminate 40 , there was a contract among all the minor league teams that they would stick together and negotiate it as a group,” said Jim Quinn, an attorney representing the minor league teams. “But instead, Major League Baseball — knowing that these contracts exist — didn’t care, and said, ‘it’s 120 or nothing.’ They forced the other teams to violate that contract, and that’s called tortious interference with a contract.
Some of the minor league teams’ claims have been dismissed, but what remains is what Quinn called “the guts” of the case.
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