Major League Baseball, Alan H. Selig, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, LTD., Florida Marlins Baseball Club, LLC v. Charlie Crist

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the \business-of-baseball exemption\ preempted a state-law antitrust action against Major League Baseball and baseball clubs, and commenting that the court had no choice but to apply the exemption \[a]s an intermediate appellate court\
• holding Younger abstention inappropriate when Florida’s attorney general served civil investigative demands
• rejecting argument that the involvement of public entities in a professional baseball league's activity would take that activity out of the scope of the exemption
• in federal antitrust case against MLB, stating “[w]hen the applicability of baseball’s exemption is so apparent, no factual development is necessary”
• in federal antitrust case against MLB, stating “[w]hen the applicability of baseball’s exemption is so apparent, no factual development is necessary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).