Alan Rifkin and Arnold Weiner win rare victory against Major League Baseball

Managing Partner, Alan M. Rifkin, who also chairs the firm’s Sports and Entertainment Group, along with Arnold M. Weiner, who co-chairs the firm’s Litigation Group, headed a team of lawyers, in conjunction with Sidley Austin and Chadbourne Park, to vacate an internal MLB arbitration decision. In a petition heard before the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, Justice Lawrence K. Marks vacated a decision of MLB’s Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee (RSDC) in a case involving the firm’s client, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. MLB’s internal arbitration decisions are rarely vacated and the case marks the first time that a decision of MLB’s RSDC has been vacated by a court.

MLB slammed for its “utter lack of concern for fairness” in its arbitration with the Orioles

M.L.B. Decision on Nationals’ Rights Fees Is Overturned