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US: Baseball players to pitch their antitrust case to 9th Circuit

By  |  April 17, 2017

Baseball’s nearly 100-year-old judicially created exemption that protects it from antitrust lawsuits is once again under attack. Minor League Baseball players will be telling the Ninth Circuit that Major League Baseball and its clubs are conspiring to suppress their wages.

Minor league baseball players will urge a federal appeals court on to revive their lawsuit. They claim that Major League Baseball and its teams conspired to suppress their wages, and that this action violates antitrust laws.

At oral argument before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, the players will argue that the MLB’s exemption from antitrust laws created by a trio of US Supreme Court cases does not apply to its scheme to fix minor league players’ salaries at artificially low levels.

Full Content: Reuters

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