MASN Wins Bulk Of Discovery Request In Nationals Media-Rights Case

MASN today in N.Y. Supreme Court won the bulk of its discovery request against MLB and the Nationals in their ongoing media-rights dispute. After a four-hour hearing, Judge Lawrence Marks ordered the league to turn over documents relating to the role of MLB Commissioner-elect Rob Manfred in the preparation of a Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee decision favoring the Nationals, as well as evidence of any communications between Manfred and the individual RSDC arbitrators.

MASN sought the documents as part of a broader argument that the RSDC decision was tainted, in large part by Manfred, and should be vacated. A trial on the primary arguments in the case is still scheduled for March 2.