Major League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday to reverse a finding that sports teams must pay sales taxes on collectible bobblehead toys and other giveaways to fans on game days.
Read moreThe Supreme Court is leaving in place a court decision dismissing a lawsuit filed against the Chicago Cubs by the owners of rooftop clubs adjacent to Wrigley Field.
Read moreA collector of vintage baseball memorabilia claims in court that Beckett Auctions refuses to return, or pay him for, a consignment worth $560,000. The collection includes a uniform worn by Joe DiMaggio and baseballs signed by Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the 1927 New York Yankees
Read moreA longtime provider of roasted peanuts to Oriole Park claims in court that lax quality controls by its farm suppliers led to a roasted mouse being sold to a spectator and the ensuing cancellation of the vendor’s contract.
Read moreSportsMedia Technology Corp. claims in a federal complaint that MLB Advanced Media has been willfully infringing a patent for a data-tracking system called PITCHf/x for the the entire 2017 baseball season, and that the same breaches and damage will occur again for the 2018 season.
Read moreMinor league baseball players who make as little as $5,500 a season were stripped of the protection of federal minimum wage laws under a provision in government spending legislation signed Friday.
Read moreA former Major League Baseball player claims in court that ESPN, the Associated Press and USA Today published a defamatory news article that falsely accused him and his company of selling banned performance enhancing substances to professional baseball players.
Read moreFederal prosecutors in Orange County, Calif., told a judge Tuesday that they want to put a CEO on trial a third time on charges he passed insider stock tips to former baseball star Doug DeCinces.
Read moreCocaine smuggling charges against former All-Star pitcher Esteban Loaiza were transferred to federal court Wednesday and Loaiza was transferred from state to federal custody.
Read moreA federal class action claims that MLB Advanced Media dba MLB.Com offers a one-year subscription for $79.99, but automatically renews at $112.99 after eight months, double-billing for the final four months of the first year.
Read moreA federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after the jury deadlocked on whether a Southern California CEO gave insider trading tips about his company’s merger to retired Major League third baseman Doug DeCinces.
Read moreMiami-Dade County is suing former Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria and the new ownership group led by Derek Jeter seeking money from the $1.2 billion sale of the team.
Read moreThe defense attorney for a Southern California CEO accused of insider trading told a federal jury Wednesday that the prosecution’s theory of the case makes no sense — and the prosecutor responded that the defense explanation is ridiculous.
Read moreA federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday that a CEO charged with insider trading lied when he denied tipping former Orioles third-baseman Doug DeCinces to confidential information that his company, Advanced Medical Optics, would soon be acquired for a high price.
Read moreConvicted of insider trading last year, baseball star Doug DeCinces on Thursday acknowledged that by not coming clean earlier he allowed a close friend to be wrongfully convicted and left three more friends to face federal charges he could have prevented.
Read moreFormer baseball star Doug DeCinces admitted to a federal jury Wednesday that he bought thousands of shares of a medical device company based on confidential information from its CEO that the company was about to be acquired for more than twice the price its shares were bringing.
Read moreEight months ago, a federal jury convicted former Orioles and Angels third baseman Doug DeCinces of insider trading, but deadlocked on whether former CEO James Mazzo fed him the information on which he traded. On Wednesday Mazzo went to trial again, and DeCinces is lined up to testify against him.
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The widow of former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych, a 1976 rookie of the year who found strangled underneath his truck nearly a decade ago, has lost her negligence suit.
Read moreThe cousin of baseball superstar Albert Pujols asked the Eighth Circuit on Monday to take up his defamation lawsuit against Pujols, his wife and his charitable foundation over a fatal car crash.
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