Legal Opinion
Piazza v. Major League Baseball
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 4, 1993No. Civ. A. 92-7173PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PADOVA, District Judge.
Plaintiffs allege that the organizations of professional major league baseball and an affiliated individual frustrated their efforts to purchase the San Francisco Giants baseball club (the “Giants”) and relocate it to Tampa Bay, Florida. Plaintiffs charge these defendants with infringing upon their rights under the United States Constitution and violating federal antitrust laws and several state laws in the process.
Asserting that this Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ federal and state claims and that plaintiffs’ federal claims fail to…
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