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Litigation

Mar. 30, 2012

Potential Dodgers deal comes with liabilities

The new owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers will assume the liabilities of current owner Frank McCourt, including the negligence lawsuit brought by a San Francisco Giants fan brutally beaten outside Dodger Stadium last year.


By Ciaran McEvoy


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Assuming Tuesday's agreement to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2 billion goes through, the team's liabilities under owner Frank McCourt could soon be shared with the new ownership group led by basketball legend Magic Johnson.


One legal decision facing the new group is whether to fight or settle the pending lawsuit of Bryan Stow, a paramedic and San Francisco Giants fan who su...

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