MLB Issues Rebuke To Dodgers' Document, Deposition Requests

MLB, as expected, late yesterday issued its own stinging rebuke to the Dodgers' recent requests for a sweeping series of depositions and document submissions in the club's ongoing bankruptcy case. In the filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, the league called Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt's extensive discovery requests "wholly irrelevant" and "a multi-ringed sideshow of mini-trials." McCourt is seeking 31 separate categories of document submissions from the league. But MLB in its filing said 28 of those categories have nothing to do with the club's debtor-in-possession financing and how to fund near-term operations.

Judge Kevin Gross will hold a hearing via telephone this morning to determine what documents must be turned over and which depositions must occur. That session in turn will serve as a prelude for a July 20 hearing in Wilmington on rival DIP financing proposals from MLB and HighBridge Capital.