MLB Files For Arbitration Over Nationals Ballpark In DC
MLB has filed a request with the American Arbitration Association to use a mediator to “help resolve its dispute with [DC] over a lease agreement” for the Nationals’ new ballpark, according to Tim Lemke of the WASHINGTON TIMES. The league could “ask an arbitrator to enforce the lease as written,” but first the two sides “must go through a 15-day process of mediation, which is nonbinding.” DC Mayor Anthony Williams and other district officials said that they “expect to resubmit the lease to the council before binding arbitration gets under way” and added that they were “skeptical an arbitrator could force the DC Council’s hand.” Meanwhile, Lemke reports Williams “snapped back at [MLB President & COO Bob] DuPuy for recently criticizing the city for missing several stadium-related deadlines,” saying that MLB has also missed deadlines. Williams: “I don’t want to pick a fight because we are at a delicate stage, but how many commitments and pledges has [MLB] made on things they were going to do by a certain date?” (WASHINGTON TIMES, 1/5). Also in DC, Nakamura & Heath report MLB in its filing named the DCSEC as the opposing party, but Williams administration officials have said that the DC Attorney General’s office “could get involved.” Nakamura & Heath note if the sides “cannot agree during the mediation period, the agreement calls for [MLB] officials and the city to claim a ‘dispute’ and proceed to binding arbitration before a three-member panel” (WASHINGTON POST, 1/5).
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