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Billionaire Who Relocated NFL’s Rams Wants Trial Moved Out of St. Louis

City’s ‘most hated man’ Kroenke laments pretrial publicity
Suit claims owner broke contract moving team to Los Angeles

Enos Stanley “Stan” Kroenke, chairman and founder of the Kroenke Group, left, shown in July 2016. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Jef Feeley and Tim Bross

August 19, 2021 at 4:54 PM UTC

Billionaire Stanley Kroenke was nicknamed the “most hated man“ in St. Louis after moving his Rams football team out of the state in 2016. Now, he and the National Football League are trying to move the city’s billion-dollar breach-of-contract lawsuit out of a local court.

“Extensive pretrial publicity” warrants transferring the case to a different courthouse, Kroenke and the NFL said in a filing this month.