April 13, 2022
Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup deemed former MLB pitcher Neiman Nix a "vexatious" litigant on Tuesday, rebuking the hurler-turned-supplement-salesman for abusing the judicial system in a harassment campaign against the league and its union.
March 02, 2021
The lawyer for a former pitcher turned health supplement salesman must pay a sanction after a California federal judge found that he and other attorneys "secreted away" settlement funds from lengthy litigation against Major League Baseball and its players' union so their client could escape payment obligations.
January 21, 2021
Major League Baseball and its players union urged a California federal judge Thursday to hold a former pitcher-turned-health supplement pitchman in civil contempt for failing to pay court-ordered sanctions in their nine-year fight over a banned growth hormone and asked that his lawyer be made jointly liable for the sanctions.
October 27, 2020
U.S. District Judge William Alsup sanctioned a professional baseball player turned health supplement salesman for bringing "baseless" lawsuits as "part of an entrenched campaign of harassment" against Major League Baseball and its players' union Tuesday, ordering the ex-pitcher and his company to pay more than $140,000 in attorney fees.
September 24, 2020
A Major League Baseball Players Association attorney slammed opposing counsel for an ex-pitcher-turned health supplement salesman in a recently dismissed unfair competition suit against the league and union, telling a California federal judge during a sanctions hearing Thursday that "sometimes lawyers have to say no" to a client's request.
August 03, 2020
A former Major League Baseball pitcher turned health supplement salesman has lost his unfair competition suit against the league's players union in the first inning, with California federal Judge William Alsup tossing all of the claims and pledging to address the union's request for "substantial sanctions."
January 24, 2020
A former Major League Baseball pitcher turned health supplement maker is suing MLB yet again, claiming the league blackballed him because his products contain elk antler extract, but it endorses products like Gatorade protein bars and Muscle Milk shakes that contain the same active substance.