A case seeking to overturn Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption is the best shot in fifty years at getting the Supreme Court to reconsider the sports league’s historic immunity, attorneys and antitrust scholars say.
The case from minor league baseball teams that allege MLB engaged in an anticompetitive agreement has garnered support from the Major League Baseball Players Association, lawmakers, attorneys general, and academics. The league’s historic immunity has also caught the eye of several baseball fans on the nation’s highest bench.
Thanks to a 1922 Supreme Court opinion, Major League Baseball isn’t beholden to antitrust statutes in the way ...
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