September 29, 2015
Two putative class actions against Major League Baseball seeking to increase the pay for minor league ballplayers are pushing the boundaries of legal protections for professional baseball's business model, including its age-old antitrust exemption, but experts say they face an uphill battle to change the system.
September 28, 2015
Minor league players in a wage-and-hour suit against Major League Baseball on Monday again told an Illinois federal court that the Chicago White Sox franchise, which was dismissed from the suit, must still hand over requested documents, pointing to a favorable decision against another dismissed team, the Cleveland Indians, on the same issue.
September 23, 2015
Minor league baseball players in a putative wage-and-hour class action against Major League Baseball and many of its clubs asked an Ohio federal court Tuesday to force one of the dismissed teams, the Cleveland Indians, to hand over documents the minor leaguers say are necessary for their case.
September 08, 2015
Minor league baseball players suing Major League Baseball and its franchises in a putative wage-and-hour class action filed a reply supporting their original motion for conditional certification in California federal court Friday, saying that conditional certification does not require members of a collective to be similar in every detail.
August 28, 2015
The Chicago White Sox in a response filed on Friday in Illinois federal court blasted document requests from a group of minor league baseball players, saying that the requests are too broad given that the team was tossed from an underlying putative wage-and-hour class action against Major League Baseball and several teams.
August 24, 2015
Major League Baseball and its franchises accused of denying minor league players minimum wages and overtime pay urged a California federal court on Friday not to grant collective action certification, claiming the players' varying circumstances make the case a poor candidate for collective treatment.
July 23, 2015
Two wage-and-hour suits by minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball franchises will remain consolidated, a California federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a claim that splitting up the cases would help ballplayers swat away attacks on their standing.
July 13, 2015
Minor leaguers suing Major League Baseball and several of its franchises kept their wage and hour suit alive for the time being, with a California federal judge holding Monday that objections to the class members' standing should wait until the class certification stage.
June 29, 2015
Ballplayers suing Major League Baseball in a putative wage-and-hour class action asked a California federal court in a motion on Friday to grant them conditional certification, saying that the members clearly meet the requirements because their responsibilities are essentially identical and they "have been subjected to a common scheme."
June 15, 2015
Ballplayers suing Major League Baseball told a California federal court Friday that they have standing to bring their putative wage-and-hour class action because every team being sued, and state where state-law claims are asserted, corresponds to a named plaintiff.