When a federal judge on Tuesday wanted to make sure that a U.S. company had purchased the Miami Marlins last fall, a lawyer speaking for the team corrected him.
"As I understand it, there's no question the purchaser in this case is a U.S. citizen, or a U.S. entity?" U.S. Judge Darrin Gayles said of Marlins Teamco, the holding company Derek Jeter and partners formed in October 2017 to close the $1.2 billion purchase of the baseball franchise from Jeffrey Loria.
"That is not correct, your honor," said Peter Duffy Doyle, a lawyer speaking for both the Loria and Jeter groups in Tuesday's hearing on a lawsuit filed against the team by Miami and Miami-Dade over the $1.