Justice
Can San Jose Really Sue Its Way to a Major League Baseball Team?
The city has filed a lawsuit against MLB for stalling the A's move from Oakland. But there's surely a non-litigious deal to be made here.
For one of America's ten largest cities, San Jose keeps an unusually low profile. It is the largest U.S. city without an NFL, NBA, or MLB team, that benchmark of big-city legitimacy ensuring daily attention on TV and in the sports pages.
Last week, San Jose moved to remedy that, filing a lawsuit against Major League Baseball for stalling the Oakland A's move to relocate to a plot of land just west of San Jose's Diridon Station.