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Justice Rules In Favor Of MASN In Media Rights Dispute

New York state Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Marks today ruled in favor of the Orioles-controlled MASN in its case against MLB and the Nationals, vacating a league arbitration award in favor of the Nationals in their ongoing media rights dispute. Marks’ ruling, arriving more than five months after oral arguments in N.Y., found that law firm Proskauer Rose simultaneously representing MLB, the Nationals and members of the internal arbitration panel created a troubling conflict that “objectively demonstrates an utter lack for fairness.”

“Had MLB, the arbitrators, the Nationals and/or Proskauer taken some reasonable step to address (the Orioles’) concerns about the Nationals’ choice of counsel in the arbitration – or indeed any step at all – the court might well have been compelled to uphold the arbitral award,” Marks wrote in his decision. “But MASN and the Orioles have established that their well-documented concerns fell on entirely deaf ears.”

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