Daily News | Durbin wants hearing to look into baseball antitrust exemption despite new labor deal
Even as Major League Baseball reached an agreement Thursday to end a 99-day lockout of its players, one of the highest-ranking members of the U.S. Senate said he intends to look into a century-old Supreme Court ruling that enables the league to operate as a lawful monopoly.
“I want to have a hearing,” Durbin said in an interview Thursday. “It’s an interesting legal, political challenge as to how to treat baseball and whether baseball as an entity has a special treatment under the law and shouldn’t be treated as any other corporation when it comes to objectionable conduct. I think it’s time to ask those questions all over again.”
Durbin, who believes he would have bipartisan support in such a hearing, interjected himself into the protracted lockout Wednesday nightthat it’s time to “reconsider” baseball’s antitrust exemption. He also implored the owners to “unlock the lockout and play ball.” The message had been retweeted more than 2,500 times and received more than 10,400 likes as of 5 p.m. Thursday.
Last year, several members of Congress, including Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, threatened to take up the antitrust issue after MLB moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in opposition to Georgia’s election laws. In December, lawyers representing four of the 40 minor-league teams that last year were stripped of their affiliation with major-league clubs filed a lawsuit with the U.S.
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