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  1. February 14, 2025

    Off The Bench: Trans EO, Cards Arbitration, NASCAR Revs Up

    In this week's Off The Bench, litigation begins over President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender individuals from competing in women's sports, a former Arizona Cardinals executive's defamation suit against the team is shuffled to arbitration, and NASCAR asks an appeals panel to reverse wins handed to two teams in their antitrust suit.

  2. February 13, 2025

    Ex-Angels Staffer Says Attys Botched Skaggs Overdose Case

    A former Los Angeles Angels press officer asked a Texas federal judge to undo the 22-year prison sentence he's currently serving after being convicted of giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs fentanyl-laced pills that caused his fatal overdose in 2019.

  3. October 11, 2022

    Ex-Angels Staffer Gets 22 Years For Skaggs Overdose

    A former Los Angeles Angels press officer was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison on charges related to giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that led to his fatal overdose in 2019.

  4. April 26, 2022

    Ex-Angels Staffer Can't Get New Trial Over Skaggs Overdose

    A Texas federal judge Tuesday rejected a bid for a new trial from the former Los Angeles Angels press officer who was convicted by a federal jury in February on charges related to giving 27-year-old pitcher Tyler Skaggs drugs that caused his overdose death in 2019.

  5. March 24, 2022

    Verdict In Skaggs Overdose Conviction Is Fair, Feds Say

    Jurors relied on ample evidence to convict a former Los Angeles Angels staffer of giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that caused his overdose death, prosecutors told a Texas federal judge Thursday in a bid to uphold the verdict.

  6. February 17, 2022

    Former Angels Staffer Found Guilty In Skaggs Overdose Trial

    A Texas federal jury on Thursday convicted a former Los Angeles Angels press officer on charges related to giving 27-year-old pitcher Tyler Skaggs drugs that caused his overdose death in 2019.

  7. February 16, 2022

    Angels Staffer Points Finger At Other Dealers In Skaggs Trial

    Attorneys for a former Los Angeles Angels press officer accused of giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that caused his 2019 death tried to poke holes in the government's case Wednesday, presenting witnesses in Texas federal court who said Skaggs had other sources for drugs and planned to go out the night he died.

  8. February 15, 2022

    Matt Harvey Testifies Angels Staffer Gave Players Drugs

    Major League Baseball pitcher Matt Harvey and three other ex-Los Angeles Angels players testified Tuesday in the trial of a former team staffer accused of giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to his death in 2019, saying the press officer was the team's connection for painkiller oxycodone.

  9. December 20, 2021

    LA Times Asks To Unseal Feds' Plans For MLB Overdose Trial

    The Los Angeles Times asked a Texas federal judge on Monday to unseal the government's witness and evidence lists for the upcoming criminal trial of a former Major League Baseball team staffer accused of supplying Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs with a fatal drug dose.

  10. November 09, 2021

    Angels Defeat 'Fishing Expedition' Subpoena In Fatal OD Case

    A Texas federal judge chided prosecutors for their "glaring" failure to properly subpoena the Los Angeles Angels baseball team and refused to bless a "government fishing expedition" in the case of a former team employee accused of supplying the drugs that led to pitcher Tyler Skaggs' overdose death, court documents revealed Tuesday.