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MASN Lays Out Case To Keep Rights Dispute From Heading Back To MLB's RSDC

MASN has filed a brief with the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court laying out its case for preventing a return of the long-running media rights dispute with the Nationals and MLB to the league’s Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee. A ruling last November at the lower state supreme court vacated an initial RSDC decision in favor of the Nationals, and the parties since then have been battling to determine the next venue of the dispute and where the Nationals’ media rights fees will be determined. In the latest appellate brief, the Orioles-controlled MASN argues “the simple and undeniable truth is that MASN and the Orioles cannot receive a fair and impartial hearing under MLB’s auspices. The time-honored principles of fairness, neutrality, and due process that underpin the [Federal Arbitration Act] compel rehearing in an independent and neutral forum outside of MLB. To hold otherwise in these circumstances would undermine the legitimacy of arbitration as a means of dispute resolution.” The 58-page brief lays out much of the history of the dispute, including the ’05 settlement agreement between MLB and Orioles Owner Peter Angelos following the relocation of the Expos to DC, the creation of the MASN partnership, a $25M advance made by the league to the Nationals to cover perceived shortfalls in rights fees, and overlapping legal representation by Proskauer that helped pave the way for the court’s initial vacatur ruling. MASN also argues MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s recent reformation of the RSDC with Mariners President & COO Kevin Mather, Blue Jays President & CEO Mark Shapiro and Brewers Owner Mark Attanasio is unpersuasive in the Nationals’ and MLB’s bid to return the case to that forum.

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