A PYMNTS Company

US: SCOTUS calls strike-out on Minor League ballplayers

By  |  December 6, 2017

The US Supreme Court has declined to take up minor league baseball players’ bid to revive their proposed class action accusing Major League Baseball (MLB) and its teams of conspiring to suppress their wages in violation of antitrust laws.

Minor league players filed a petition for certiorari in September requesting review of a 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals decision, which ruled that minor league baseball falls “squarely” within the “business-of-baseball” antitrust exemption that the high court granted the sport in 1922.

In a one-sentence announcement the Supreme Court said it would not accept Miranda v. Selig, a suit filed by four minor leaguers in December 2014 alleging MLB’s hiring and employment policies violated antitrust laws by restraining competition among teams and illegally depressing minor league salaries.

Full Content: Hickory Record

Want more news? Subscribe to CPI’s free daily newsletter for more headlines and updates on antitrust developments around the world.