Perspective
Apr. 12, 2014
No way Oakland A's go to San Jose
In short, unless the 9th Circuit is willing to flout these Supreme Court decisions, it is difficult to see how it can do anything but affirm the dismissal of the San Jose lawsuit. By Daniel E. Lazaroff
Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick may know the way to San Jose, but it seems unlikely that the Oakland Athletics will be playing there in the foreseeable future. On Oct. 11, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California invoked baseball's antitrust exemption and dismissed a complaint filed by the city of San Jose challenging Major League Baseball's designation of San Jose as within the operating territory of t...
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