US Supreme Court Asked to Overturn MLB’s Antitrust Exemption (1)

Baseball teams that were booted out of the minor leagues by Major League Baseball are asking the Supreme Court to intervene and overturn professional baseball’s century-old exemption from antitrust laws.

The teams, including Tri-City ValleyCats in upstate New York, say MLB violated antitrust laws when it restructured its century-old farm system, ousting them and others out of the MLB’s minor league affiliates.

But MLB is famously exempt from antitrust laws due to a 1922 Supreme Court decision that concluded baseball exhibitions don’t implicate the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act because they don’t involve interstate trade or commerce. The decision in Federal ...