March 16, 2022
Minor leaguers are year-round, joint employees of Major League Baseball and its clubs, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday in a significant victory for players alleging starvation wages as their class and collective action approaches a spring trial.
February 16, 2022
A California federal magistrate judge implied Friday that Major League Baseball and minor league players fighting over pay would be better off with a bench trial, saying they're going to spend a "boatload of money" on a lengthy jury trial when relatively few facts are actually in dispute.
February 07, 2022
Major League Baseball struck out Sunday when a California federal judge again denied a bid to decertify classes of minor leaguers suing for minimum wage and overtime, finding the trial is too close at hand to reconsider soundly rejected complaints about damages calculations.
January 28, 2022
Minor league baseball players suing Major League Baseball over alleged starvation wages cautioned a California federal judge Thursday against allowing "the tail to wag the dog" as they asked him to simplify an upcoming trial in sprawling litigation by separating players' individual and class claims.
December 13, 2021
A controversial 2018 law tweaking federal wage protections doesn't retroactively unravel Florida's own compensation laws, a group of minor league baseball players said Friday as they sought to keep alive part of a suit accusing MLB of paying starvation wages.
December 09, 2021
A group of minor league baseball players suing MLB alleging starvation wages raised the threat of sanctions Wednesday as they asked a California court to strike the sport's governing body's bid to exclude testimony from their damages witness.
October 29, 2021
A group of minor leaguers suing MLB for alleged starvation wages shouldn't be allowed to use a "confusing" and allegedly biased survey of their work hours to calculate damages, the league said in a pair of California federal court filings on Friday.
August 26, 2021
A California judge on Thursday tapped class counsel for a group of minor leaguers suing MLB for alleged starvation wages after he trimmed down their bid for an injunction to sidestep conflicting state labor laws.
July 26, 2021
A class of minor league baseball players suing over alleged starvation wages won a California federal court order Friday allowing some of them to pursue an injunction requiring Major League Baseball to comply with labor laws.
May 25, 2021
A minor-league pitcher brought in to relieve departing class representatives in MLB's long-running wage dispute with farm league players cannot seek a classwide injunction in the case, because he hasn't played for any of the teams being sued, MLB argued in a California federal court filing Monday.