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Minor league teams ask US Supreme Court to dismantle baseball antitrust exemption

( September 18, 2023, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Minor league teams asked the US Supreme Court to revisit and overturn the common-law baseball exemption to antitrust enforcement. “There is no democratic consensus for this immunity: Congress never enacted a law exempting professional baseball from the Sherman Act. Nor, as the US observed in this case, is there any policy rationale supporting the exemption. This court never determined that all restraints of trade in the business of baseball are ‘reasonable’ or procompetitive. Instead, the court granted baseball antitrust immunity in 1922 on grounds everyone agrees are inapplicable today — and then mistakenly continued that immunity in two grievously wrong decisions,” they argued. The Second Circuit affirmed dismissal of the teams’ antitrust claims against Major League Baseball in June. See document below. ...

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