Billionaire Who Took Rams From St. Louis Can’t Move Lawsuit Too

The National Football League and billionaire Stanley Kroenke are stuck with a St. Louis court in their legal showdown with the city over relocation of the Rams to Los Angeles five years ago.

The league and Kroenke, the real-estate magnate who owns the Rams, lost a bid Tuesday to have the breach-of-contract case moved to another Missouri court due to “extensive pre-trial publicity.”

Lawyers for the NFL and Kroenke, who was dubbed “most hated man” in St. Louis in 2016, told Judge Christopher McGraugh that hard feelings created by the move, along with the city’s claims it cost the area jobs and tax revenue, will unfairly prejudice jurors in the case.