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Saturday, February 11, 2006 |
Anaheim Unlikely To Appeal Angels Court Ruling
The city of Anaheim is unlikely to appeal the decision regarding the Angels' team name, says the Times. The city, already out $3M, could be out as much as $7M more because they owe Arte Moreno for his legal costs. The team has no plans to change any merchandising or marketing, according to spokesman Tim Mead.
One last loose end remains from the trial: Judge Peter Polos will rule on March 2 on Anaheim's request to permanently block the team from using the "Los Angeles" designation in the name. He has already refused two such requests.
Comments:
Typical Republican that Arte is...screws over a municipality for his own personal gain (the name change) and then demands payment because he got the typical jury with no idea of how to interpret the law
# posted by 
: 2/11/2006 06:16:00 PM
: 2/11/2006 06:16:00 PM
Huh? Peter Polos said the contract gave him the exclusive right to be unusual. End of story. Maybe they need to find a judge who can rule the way they like, rather than with the contract.
Actually, Pringle has done some pretty cool things. He's spearheaded an effort to make Anaheim, by the end of the year, one of the first thoroughly wifi-ed cities in the country, and it was just announced that he was pushing through a plan to throw open the city to competition among a variety of cable providers (in contrast to most municipalities). He's been very competition-friendly and very open-minded on a number of fronts.
# posted by : 2/11/2006 09:03:00 PM
: 2/11/2006 09:03:00 PM
I hate the name change as much as anyone, but he certainly didn't screw over Anaheim with it. Besides, the jury did a well enough job with the law...it was not an easy case, because the contract itself was ambiguous. I prefer the team to be Anaheim alone (or better yet, go back to California), but at this stage it should be changed to LA with no "of Anaheim."
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