September 30, 2011 6:24 PM
The Score: Fox Sports Takes Cut at Dodgers Over Media Rights Deal
Posted by Tom Huddleston Jr.
Moving to block owner Frank McCourt’s plan to rescue the Los Angeles Dodgers from insolvency by auctioning off the rights to broadcast the team’s games, Fox Sports is suing the beleaguered Major League Baseball franchise, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In its suit—filed late Tuesday in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware by lawyers from Rutter Hobbs Davidoff and Morris, Nichols, Arsht Tunnell—Fox Sports Net West seeks a court order blocking any sale of Dodgers’ TV rights that infringes on the network’s existing contract with the team.
Under that pact, the network’s exclusive rights to negotiate a new deal with the team extend through November 2012, according to the Times. McCourt’s proposed auction—the linchpin of a planned restructuring of the financially hobbled franchise—would not preserve those rights.
The Fox suit comes on the heels of Major League Baseball’s move to disqualify the Dewey LeBoeuf and Young Conaway Stargatt Taylor lawyers representing the Dodgers in the bankruptcy case. MLB’s argument: those lawyers have a conflict of interest because they are
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