As Florida remains the only state where the sport of baseball is not exempt from antitrust law, antitrust suits flourish as plaintiffs fight to get their cases heard. In one ongoing case, former umpire Jim Evans is fighting his lawsuit in Orange County concerning a case of how Minor League Baseball trains its new umpires. Despite a league motion to dismiss the case, the judge granted its procedure. According to reports, Evans had his own training academy since 1989 until last year, when the league shut his down to monopolize on its own training school. One law expert noted that Orange County is the proper jurisdiction to file the suit, as it remains one of the few places in the nation where such cases have a chance of being heard. Similar cases found their way through the system in 1992, 1993 and 1994.
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