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San Jose loses legal fight against MLB over Oakland A's plan
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_28923445/san-jose-loses-legal-fight-against-mlb-overThe U.S. Supreme Court, in a move widely expected by legal experts, on Monday refused to hear San Jose's last-ditch appeal of its antitrust claims against MLB for stalling a plan to move the Oakland A's to Silicon Valley. The high court was considered San Jose's last hope to revive its effort to use legal levers to force the league to move on allowing the A's to build a ballpark in downtown San Jose.
San Jose lawyers asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court's decision in January rejecting the city's claims that baseball's refusal to allow the A's to move to a downtown ballpark violates federal antitrust provisions. In that ruling, a unanimous three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel concluded that MLB's nearly century-old exemption from federal antitrust laws -- bestowed and repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court -- forecloses the city's legal arguments....
As a result, San Jose's already faint chances of getting MLB to budge on the issue have diminished further. Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff, who originally pushed for a move to the San Jose, has recently shifted his attention back to trying to get a new ballpark built in Oakland, and never supported San Jose's legal action against the league.
The San Francisco Giants continue to block any A's effort to move to San Jose, asserting their territorial rights over the South Bay that can only be reversed through a vote of the league's owners. And the owners have to date refused to hold such a vote.
San Jose lawyers asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court's decision in January rejecting the city's claims that baseball's refusal to allow the A's to move to a downtown ballpark violates federal antitrust provisions. In that ruling, a unanimous three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel concluded that MLB's nearly century-old exemption from federal antitrust laws -- bestowed and repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court -- forecloses the city's legal arguments....
As a result, San Jose's already faint chances of getting MLB to budge on the issue have diminished further. Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff, who originally pushed for a move to the San Jose, has recently shifted his attention back to trying to get a new ballpark built in Oakland, and never supported San Jose's legal action against the league.
The San Francisco Giants continue to block any A's effort to move to San Jose, asserting their territorial rights over the South Bay that can only be reversed through a vote of the league's owners. And the owners have to date refused to hold such a vote.
Now batting for the A's, the left fielder, number 23, Nelson Muntz!
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I'm surprised it's still standing after all these years. 
The Raiders are (sort of) looking to build a new stadium on the existing parking lot (while eyeing a joint venture with the Chargers in LA County's Carson 
), while the A's are looking at a site at the Port of Oakland near Jack London Square.
