Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption Is ‘Dubious,’ Needs Limits, US Says

Major League Baseball’s century-old antitrust exemption is “of dubious validity” and should not be expanded by the courts, the Biden administration argued in a legal case by a group of minor league teams.

The US Justice Department on Tuesday submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in a suit by the Staten Island Yankees and three other teams that were put out of business when MLB restructured its relationship to its farm system. The minor league clubs lost their court challenge to the restructuring and are appealing to the federal appeals court in Manhattan.