US: Major League Baseball protects antitrust exemption, wants San Jose case tossed
Major League Baseball said it will stand its ground against an antitrust lawsuit filed against the organization by the city of San Jose, asserting the case does not hold up against the MLB’s antitrust exemption. Lawyers filed to have the case tossed on Wednesday. San Jose filed the case against MLB claiming a “blatant conspiracy” by the organization to keep baseball team the Oakland A’s from moving to San Jose. The case challenges the league’s antitrust exemption, which has been in place since 1922 following a Supreme Court ruling. Legal representatives for San Jose say the lawsuit stands on firm legal ground, but the MLB said the “allege harms are too remote and speculative to support an antitrust claim.” San Jose claims that preventing the team’s move has harmed the city and highlighted the inability for the city to build a stadium for the A’s because MLB will now allow the team to move.
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