The Dallas Mavericks have abandoned their most significant claim to be contested at trial next month in a fight with the Dallas Stars over their shared partnership in the American Airlines Center sports arena.
The NBA team Thursday nonsuited a tortious interference claim that remained undecided after a Texas Business Court judge ruled in their favor in seven other issues this month.
By abandoning the claim, the Mavs’ lawyer, Chip Babcock of Jackson Walker LLP, said there’s no need to proceed to trial as planned on May 11. A dispute over attorneys’ fees was also to be decided at the trial.
“The team just wants to move forward and not have this be more of a distraction than it already has been,” Babcock said Friday.
The Stars’ lawyer, Joshua Sandler of Winstead PC, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the impact of the Mavs’ nonsuit on the upcoming trial.
On April 2, Judge Bill Whitehill ruled the Mavs can redeem the interest of the Stars for a cash tender of $110 because the hockey team maintained its office outside the city in violation of a 1999 lease agreement.
The Stars are represented by Winstead PC.
The case is Dallas Sports Group LLC v. DSE Hockey Club LP, Tex. Bus. Ct., No. 25-BC01B-0049, 4/9/26.
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