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  1. June 26, 2017

    9th Circ. Upholds Baseball Antitrust Exemption In Wage Suit

    The Ninth Circuit on Monday rejected a lawsuit by minor league baseball players alleging Major League Baseball colluded to fix minor leaguers' wages, again upholding a nearly 100-year-old judicially created exemption for the business of baseball from antitrust scrutiny and handing the league a major win.

  2. April 18, 2017

    MLB, Minor Leaguers Play Hardball On Wages At 9th Circ.

    Major League Baseball and a group of minor league players got their ups before a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday over allegations that MLB teams colluded to fix minor leaguers' wages, with the players arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court's 1922 antitrust exemption for baseball is "wrong law."

  3. April 17, 2017

    Minor Leaguers Swing For Fence In 9th Circ. Exemption Row

    Baseball's nearly 100-year-old judicially created exemption that protects it from antitrust lawsuits is once again under attack, this time by Minor League Baseball players who are gearing up to tell the Ninth Circuit that Major League Baseball and its clubs are conspiring to suppress their wages.

  4. April 10, 2017

    MLB Must Face 9th Circ. Args Over Antitrust Exemption

    Major League Baseball and its clubs must face another oral argument in the Ninth Circuit over baseball's long-held antitrust exemption after the appellate court on Friday denied a bid to rule just on the briefs in an appeal by a group of former minor league ballplayers who say the league and its clubs have unlawfully conspired to suppress their pay.

  5. February 21, 2017

    Ballplayers Want Arguments Over MLB Antitrust Exemption

    A proposed class of minor league baseball players has told the Ninth Circuit that their appeal over the dismissal of their pay-suppression suit under baseball's antitrust exemption should have the benefit of an oral argument, urging the appellate court not to grant a request by Major League Baseball to simply rule on the briefs.

  6. January 10, 2017

    MLB Says Scouts' Pay-Suit Whiff Hurts Minor Leaguers' Case

    Major League Baseball told the Ninth Circuit that a recent New York federal court decision to toss professional baseball scouts' pay-suppression claims because of baseball's antitrust exemption shows that the exemption is alive and well and was properly invoked to dismiss similar claims by minor league ballplayers.

  7. March 07, 2016

    MLB Asks 9th Circ. To Uphold Win In Minor League Wage Suit

    Major League Baseball urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to uphold the league's longstanding antitrust exemption and affirm a lower court ruling that dismissed a putative class action brought by minor league players that claim the MLB illegally suppresses their wages.

  8. January 07, 2016

    9th Circ. Told MLB Can't Use Exemption To Duck Wage Claims

    Minor league baseball players urged the Ninth Circuit Wednesday to reverse a district court's decision that their putative class action accusing Major League Baseball of suppressing their wages was barred by baseball's exemption from antitrust law, saying the ruling is "wrong and antithetical to the very purpose of antitrust laws."