High Court Antitrust Challenge Ends After MLB Settles With Teams

Major League Baseball settled with two teams that sued after they lost their affiliations with the organization, a move that ends a Supreme Court challenge seeking to reverse the professional sport’s historic antitrust exemption.

New York’s Tri-City ValleyCats and Connecticut’s Norwich Sea Unicorns reached an undisclosed settlement with the MLB in their petition to the Supreme Court, as well as in two court cases filed in New York state court. The teams’ Supreme Court petition focused on the MLB’s decision to strip their financial support when it cut its minor league affiliations from 160 to 120. The two related state ...