There is nothing much better for a litigator/baseball fan than
when these two interests collide. One of the highpoints of my
legal career was successfully representing a major league baseball
player (Pat Kelly) in his salary arbitration with the Yankees.
So I was pretty excited when the case Olson, et al. v.
Major League Baseball, et al. was filed this year in the
SDNY. Maybe not as excited as if I would have been if I were
involved in the case myself, but in these times we have to take
what we can get.
Olson was a putative class action brought by
individuals who participated in DraftKings fantasy baseball
competitions. The plaintiffs sued Major League Baseball
("MLB"), MLB's marketing entity called Major League
Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. ("MLBAM"), the Houston
Astros and the Boston Red Sox alleging that plaintiffs' fantasy
baseball efforts had been harmed by virtue of the electronic
sign-stealing scandal that has been revealed over the past few
months. In
