Puerto Rico Baseball League Wants Franchisee’s Antitrust Law Petition Thrown Out

( January 28, 2026, 12:25 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Liga de Béisbol Professional de Puerto Rico and a group of its teams, corporate entities and leadership say there is no reason for the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule the 104-year-old decision that established baseball’s antitrust exemption that was further confirmed by rulings in two other cases, in a brief in opposition to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by former investor-operators of a league baseball club asking if the exemption should be discarded or narrowed down to only the select cases....