Will U.S Supreme court take a swing MLB's anti-trust exemption?

[bankshot1]

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/u-s-supreme-court-asked-to-overturn-baseballs-antitrust-exemption/
 
 

For the first time in four decades, the U.S. Supreme Court will have an opportunity to reconsider baseball’s notorious exemption from antitrust law. On Wednesday, the city of San Jose, California filed an appeal with the nation’s highest court, asking it to overturn professional baseball’s nearly century-old immunity from the Sherman Antitrust Act.
The appeal is the latest step in the litigation surrounding the Oakland A’s proposed move to San Jose. Back in 2013, the city sued Major League Baseball claiming that the league’s failure to approve the A’s relocation violated federal antitrust law. The district court dismissed the lawsuit later that same year, concluding that baseball’s exemption shielded MLB’s relocation decisions from antitrust scrutiny. That decision was upheld earlier this year by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
 
...So San Jose is asking the Court to seize this opportunity to overturn baseball’s highly controversial antitrust immunity. Like any appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, however, the odds that the Court will agree to take San Jose’s appeal are rather slim.
 
San Jose is hoping to convince the Supreme Court to take the case by arguing that baseball’s antitrust exemption is an outdated doctrine that is harming the public interest in a variety of ways. I

 

[dcmissle]

Slim is an understatement. There is stare decisis, the precedent is older than dirt, and Congress has decades to change it but has chosen not to.

 

[Rasputin]

It is quite possibly the stupidest thing in all of American law and nobody seems to give a damn enough to do anything about it.

 

[Joshv02]

Even stupider:
whoever plays, sings or renders the Star Spangled Banner, or any part thereof, as dance music,.. shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
Mass Gen Law chapter 264, section 9

 

[Rasputin]

Even stupider:
whoever plays, sings or renders the Star Spangled Banner, or any part thereof, as dance music,.. shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
Mass Gen Law chapter 264, section 9

Nope, not stupider.

 

[Plympton91]

It is quite possibly the stupidest thing in all of American law and nobody seems to give a damn enough to do anything about it.

This. I would make repealing baseball's antitrust exemption a plank in my future presidential platform.

 

[HriniakPosterChild]

Nope, not stupider.

Stupider than pitchers taking ABs in NL parks?

 

[wade boggs chicken dinner]

It is quite possibly the stupidest greatest thing in all of American law for the people who actually owns baseball teams and nobody who wants to get campaign contributions from said people seems to give a damn enough to do anything about it.

 
FTFY.
 
And the answer to the original question is a resounding no.

 

[Rasputin]

This. I would make repealing baseball's antitrust exemption a plank in my future presidential platform.

 
Jesus, fuck, I think the world just ended.

Which is to say, so would I.
 
 

Stupider than pitchers taking ABs in NL parks?

 
I said it was the stupidest thing in all of American law, not the stupidest thing in baseball. I mean, Tim McCarver, Harold Reynolds, Disco Demolition Night.
 
Also, for the record, when you do an image search on "that idiot on MLBN" the first image is Mitch Williams.

 

[HriniakPosterChild]

I said it was the stupidest thing in all of American law, not the stupidest thing in baseball. I mean, Tim McCarver, Harold Reynolds, Disco Demolition Night.
 
Also, for the record, when you do an image search on "that idiot on MLBN" the first image is Mitch Williams.

 
Hey, Crash Davis wanted a Constitutional amendment to ban the DH. That makes it a legal issue.
 
(I'd agree with Crash about most things, I think. Not this one.)