MLB, Players Union Hit With Lawsuit for Moving All-Star Game out of Atlanta

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Major League Baseball (MLB) and the leagueโ€™s players union were hit this week with a lawsuit for moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia earlier this year.

The move affected scores of small businesses in Atlanta, including many owned by minorities, according to the suit, which was filed in federal court in New York.

After officials announced on April 2 that they were shifting the game to Colorado, more than 8,000 hotel reservations were canceled in the Atlanta area and Cobb County officials estimated the move would cost the local economy some $100 million. Past MLB All-Star events have brought in between $37 million and $190 million for the communities that host them.

MLB officials said they moved the game because ofย Georgiaโ€™s election integrity law, which was described by supporters as a way to bolster election security and by critics as racist and restrictive. Officials violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, the Equal Protection and Privileges and Immunities Clauses, and theย Dormant Commerce Clause,ย the lawsuit charges.

โ€œMLB Defendants intended to punish Georgians because their state enacted a reasonable ballot-integrity statute and to coerce Georgia and its duly elected government to surrender Georgiaโ€™s sovereignty in our federal system,โ€ it states.

โ€œPlaintiff and its members were injured as a direct and proximate result of the aforesaid conduct in an amount to be determined at trial, but not less than $100 million. MLB Defendantsโ€™ conduct was willful and contumacious and designed to inflict substantial harm, including reputational harm, upon Plaintiff. Accordingly, the Court should award not less than $1 billion in punitive damages.โ€

BYย ZACHARY STIEBER

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