NBA’s Mavericks Prevail in Texas Business Court Arena Case (1)

The Dallas Mavericks can redeem the interest of the Dallas Stars in the American Airlines Center sports arena, a business court judge ruled, because the hockey team maintained its offices outside the city.

“The evidence conclusively establishes that at all relevant times the Mavericks have complied with this requirement—and the Stars have not,” Judge Bill Whitehill said in a written opinion.

The teams are locked in a bitter dispute over a 1999 shared lease agreement that governs operations of the American Airlines Center in Dallas. The Mavericks say the Stars abandoned the partnership when they moved their headquarters to ...