Summary
Professor William Gould weighs in on a long-running attempt to bring the MLB’s Oakland A’s to San Jose for the San Jose Mercury News.
San Jose may be down to its last swing in its legal fight to revive the city’s flagging hopes to lure the Oakland A’s to Silicon Valley.
In a closed door conference on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term with a long list of cases the justices are being asked to review — and San Jose’s antitrust challenge to Major League Baseball is on the agenda.
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While legal experts say San Jose’s legal challenge seems destined to fail, some believe the Supreme Court should reconsider baseball’s antitrust exemption. William Gould, a Stanford law professor and former head of the National Labor Relations Board, argues the Supreme Court should reverse its precedent backing MLB, but concedes the justices probably won’t.
“Baseball is a part of big business,” Gould wrote in a column for this newspaper earlier this year, “and this court seems unlikely to interfere with its undeserved privilege.”
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