| As Major
League Baseball Is Sued For All-Star Game
Move Now SullCrom and Winston In
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 4 – Major League Baseball
has been sued for moving its
2021 All-Star Game out of
Atlanta - and the plaintiffs'
first cause of action is under
the Ku Klux Klan Act, 42 USA
Section 1985.
The case
has been assigned to Judge
Valerie E. Caproni in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
where Inner City Press in
in-house media and is covering
it.
On June 3,
plaintiff Job Creators
Network's CEO Alfredo Ortiz
said, "MLB Commissioner Rob
Manfred is ducking JCN’s
lawsuit by refusing to be
served, a tacit admission that
he dropped the ball by moving
the MLB All-Star game from
Atlanta. While Manfred hides
out in his $6 million Upper
East Side penthouse, Atlanta
small business owners continue
to take his decision on the
chin, losing out on over $100
million in economic activity
when they need it most."
But an
affidavit of service has been
filed in the docket, saying
that a white male of 50 years
of age weighing 240 pounds was
handed the papers, sitting
down.
Now on June 4,
however, these notices of
appearance: for Manfred and
the Office of the
Commissioner, Sullivan &
Cromwell; for the MLB Players
Association and Tony Clark,
Winston & Strawn.
A hearing
on June 10 is scheduled and
Inner City Press aims to cover
it.
The case is
Job Creators Network v. Office
of the Commissioner of
Baseball, et al., 21-cv-4818
(Caproni).
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