August 11, 2016
Major League Baseball and several of its clubs told a California federal court Wednesday that minor league baseball players in a wage and overtime lawsuit should not be allowed to ask the court to rethink its decision to decertify the class of ballplayers, arguing there are no new facts or issues for the court to consider despite proposed changes to a class survey report.
August 05, 2016
A group of minor league baseball players asked a California federal court on Thursday to reconsider the decertification of their class in a suit against Major League Baseball and several of its clubs alleging they were deprived of minimum and overtime wages.
July 22, 2016
A California federal judge on Thursday decertified a class of Minor League Baseball players in a wage-and-hour suit, dealing a major setback to their claims against Major League Baseball and several of its clubs alleging they are not paid for all the work they put in throughout the season and offseason trying to make the big leagues.
July 11, 2016
With action on challenges to the NFL commissioner's authority to discipline players expected soon in two federal appeals courts, the second half of 2016 is set to have some major case developments that could shape sports law for years to come.
July 06, 2016
A California federal judge on Wednesday removed a pair of former minor league baseball players as representatives for a proposed class action that alleges that Major League Baseball and its teams failed to pay overtime to thousands of minor leaguers and he rejected the league's request to depose them first.
June 06, 2016
Two former minor league baseball players asked the California federal court overseeing a class action that alleges Major League Baseball and its teams failed to pay thousands of minor leaguers overtime to remove them as class representatives but keep them as class members, saying Friday their discovery obligations were too taxing.
April 26, 2016
Major League Baseball accused minor league players of knowingly using bad survey data to support their proposed wage-and-hour class action in California federal court Monday, saying the two experts they hired to support their claim use unreliable data based on flawed methodologies.
April 19, 2016
Minor league ballplayers urged a California federal court Monday to allow survey evidence of hours they worked as part of their bid to win class certification in a wage and hour suit against Major League Baseball, saying such evidence was permitted by the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Tyson Foods ruling.
April 05, 2016
Major League Baseball urged a California federal court Monday to reject a bid by minor league baseball players in a wage and hour class action to certify eight state subclasses, saying the classes are too broadly defined and that players' membership in each of the proposed subclasses is "not ascertainable."
April 04, 2016
Minor league baseball players in a wage and hour class action against Major League Baseball told a California federal court Friday that their case "presents a textbook application" of the Fair Labor Standards Act, arguing they are similarly situated enough to allow their claims to continue as a class action.