The Supreme Court rejected a case filed by the City of Oakland versus the National Football League.
SCOTUS Rejects Oakland’s Case Against the NFL
The case: After the Raiders football team moved from Oakland to Las Vegas, the City of Oakland sued the NFL in an antitrust action, claiming that the NFL boosted the cost to keep the team beyond Oakland’s budget, thereby allowing the team to relocate in 2020. The Raiders accused the NFL of seeking “increasingly exorbitant” public money for a new stadium. The Northern California district court dismissed the claim, and Oakland appealed the case to the Supreme Court.
Scorecard: The Supreme Court denied the case, affirming the district court’s earlier dismissal.
Takeaway: This wasn’t the first time the Raiders took relocation efforts to a court of law. “The Raiders were involved in an earlier antitrust suit against the NFL, when owner Al Davis wanted to move the team from Oakland to Los Angeles. Davis eventually won his lawsuit and the Raiders moved south in 1982, only to return to Oakland in 1995,” according to the
