MLB Must Face Minor Leaguers’ Class Claims Over ‘Poverty Wages’

Major League Baseball must defend class action claims that it suppressed minor leaguers’ wages in violation of federal and state law, after the Northern District of California denied MLB’s motion to decertify the class.

There is no new evidence to justify reopening the certification of the claims as a class action in several states and as a federal case, Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said Sunday.

The league’s motion fails because it is based on “a plethora of arguments this court has already rejected,” Spero said in a one-page ...