ATLANTA — Major League Baseball is being sued over its move of next month’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta.
A 21-page lawsuit by conservative small-business advocacy organization Job Creators Network, filed Monday in federal court in New York, demands the immediate return of the game to Atlanta and $100 million in damages to local and state small businesses. The suit also seeks $1 billion in punitive damages.
MLB, the MLB Players Association, Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred and MLBPA executive director Tony Clark are named as defendants in the suit.
MLB announced April 2 that it would move the All-Star Game, which was scheduled for Truist Park, out of Georgia in response to the state’s new voting law.