April 26, 2021
Minor league baseball players have asked a California federal judge to broaden a certified wage class action against Major League Baseball after the Ninth Circuit said the players could have standing to seek an injunction halting allegedly unfair pay practices in addition to monetary damages.
February 23, 2021
Three current and former minor league baseball players filed intervenor complaints in California federal court Tuesday, keeping alive a long-running wage class action accusing Major League Baseball of paying minor leaguers unlawfully low wages.
December 10, 2020
Three current Minor League Baseball players asked Wednesday to intervene in a class action to represent other current players in seeking a ruling to prohibit Major League Baseball and its teams from paying minor leaguers unlawfully low wages after those claims were revived by the Ninth Circuit in the long-running litigation.
June 14, 2017
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday granted a bid by Major League Baseball to immediately appeal a California federal judge's ruling letting Minor League Baseball players proceed as a class in their wage and overtime suit against the league.
May 05, 2017
A California federal magistrate judge on Friday threw a curveball to a class of Minor League Baseball players, halting their minimum wage action to give Major League Baseball the opportunity to appeal to the Ninth Circuit over whether the players can bring their claims as a class, a move that could delay the case for a year or more.
May 03, 2017
A federal magistrate judge signed off Tuesday on language defining a California class of Minor League Baseball players suing Major League Baseball for minimum wage pay, after he reversed course months earlier and let the players bring their claims as a class.
April 04, 2017
Minor league baseball players in a class action against Major League Baseball claiming they should receive minimum wage and overtime pay told a California federal judge Tuesday that there is no reason to allow the league to immediately appeal last month's ruling to certify their class action after the league sought a halt to the case to ask the Ninth Circuit to take a look.
April 03, 2017
Major League Baseball opened the season Sunday still having to face claims from thousands of minor leaguers who say they should be paid minimum wage and overtime, after a California federal judge pulled their case from "death's door" and granted them class status.
March 22, 2017
The MLB and several of its clubs moved Wednesday to set up an immediate appeal over California Minor League Baseball players' class certification in a wage-and-hour action, arguing the class ruling relied on a flawed understanding of what can constitute hours worked.
March 08, 2017
Major League Baseball will have to face a class of minor league players who say they were cheated on minimum wage and overtime pay after a California federal judge on Tuesday certified a narrower class than one that had been earlier rejected.