Puerto Rico’s Winter Baseball League Prevails in Antitrust Suit

Puerto Rico’s winter baseball league convinced a federal judge to toss an antitrust suit brought by the former owner of a team who claimed the league boycotted his franchise.

Judge William G. Young, sitting by designation from the US District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, said the court doesn’t have jurisdiction because the Supreme Court has held that professional baseball is exempt from antitrust laws.

“The court here boldly goes where no lower court has gone before. Why? The Supreme Court has said so,” Young said. “This court applies the Supreme Court’s much criticized judicial exemption to the ...