January 29, 2016
A California federal judge on Friday ordered Major League Baseball to hand over game reports in minor leaguers' proposed class action alleging that the league conspired with its teams to suppress the players' wages, saying that MLB's objections to producing the reports make "no sense."
January 27, 2016
Minor leaguers traded fire with Major League Baseball in California federal court Tuesday over the discovery timeline in a proposed class action alleging the league conspired with its teams to suppress the players' wages, with each side accusing the other of playing hard-to-get.
November 18, 2015
The Ninth Circuit said Monday it would not intervene to split minor league wage-and-hour suits against Major League Baseball and several of its clubs that were consolidated last year, denying one group's plea that the consolidation fouled up their claims and allowed some teams to escape the litigation.
November 05, 2015
A Maryland federal judge on Thursday transferred a motion seeking payroll documents from the Baltimore Orioles to the California court already overseeing the underlying wage-and-hour suit brought by minor league players against Major League Baseball and several of its clubs.
October 30, 2015
Minor league players in a wage-and-hour suit against Major League Baseball and several of its clubs told a Maryland federal court on Friday that the Baltimore Orioles are the only remaining team dismissed from the underlying suit still refusing to hand over a sampling of payroll data.
October 20, 2015
A California federal magistrate judge on Tuesday granted conditional certification of a collective action of minor league baseball players who say that Major League Baseball deprived them of minimum and overtime wages, ruling that the players have proved enough common issues to justify provisional certification.
October 19, 2015
The Baltimore Orioles told a Maryland federal court on Friday that it shouldn't be responsible for producing all of the documents requested by a putative class of minor league baseball players suing Major League Baseball and other teams over alleged wage-and-hour violations, saying that the requests are too broad.
October 15, 2015
The Cleveland Indians must turn over some of the franchise's minor league payroll data to minor leaguers suing other MLB teams and the league itself for alleged wage-and-hour violations, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding the documents relevant to the players' upcoming class certification bid.
October 02, 2015
A California federal magistrate judge said Friday that he's likely to conditionally certify a collective action of minor league baseball players who say Major League Baseball deprived them of minimum and overtime wages, saying he thinks they have enough common issues to go forward collectively.
October 01, 2015
Minor league baseball players in a putative wage-and-hour class action against Major League Baseball filed another motion to compel one of the eight teams dismissed from the suit to hand over documents, this time targeting the Washington Nationals in D.C. federal court.