Tag: Major League Baseball
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Defends Antitrust Exemption
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has sent a 17-page letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in which he defends MLB's partial antitrust exemption.
The Committee recently...
US Senators OK Manfred Extension on MLB Antitrust Issue
A group of US senators gave baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred a three-day extension until Friday to respond to questions about the sport's antitrust exemption...
Minor League Asks Congress To Restrict MLB Antitrust Exemption
The executive director of the nonprofit Advocates for Minor Leaguers has recommended Congress enact legislation nullifying Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption as it applies...
DOJ Wants Court To Limit Scope Of MLB Antitrust Exemption
The Department of Justice waded into the controversy over Major League Baseball’s century-old antitrust exemption Wednesday, telling a federal court the exemption should be...
Democrat Asks Congress To ‘Reconsider’ MLB’s Antitrust Exemption
Democratic Senator Dick Durbin made a public appeal on Wednesday, March 9th, urging Congress to “reconsider” the antitrust exemption Major League Baseball enjoys as commissioner...
MLB Hires Sullivan & Cromwell For Antitrust Exemption Suit
Major League Baseball has once again turned to Sullivan & Cromwell, this time to defend a lawsuit seeking to dismantle its long-recognized exemption from...
Major League Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption Becomes The Next Target Of The...
By Peter W. Stevenson, Washington Post
Three Republican senators have drafted legislation that would end a special exemption from U.S. antitrust laws that has benefited Major...
GOP Senators Call For Revoking MLB’s Antitrust Status After Game Pulled...
Major League Baseball should lose its decades-old antitrust exemption, two Republican US senators said Friday night, April 2.
US Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike...
House Urges MLB Not To Eliminate Minors Teams
Four members of the House of Representatives introduced a resolution Wednesday urging Major League Baseball not to follow through with its proposal to eliminate...
US: SCOTUS calls strike-out on Minor League ballplayers
The US Supreme Court has declined to take up minor league baseball players’ bid to revive their proposed class action accusing Major League Baseball...
