Alex Rodriguez
What A-Rod Can Teach About A-rbitration
January 20, 2014
Arbitration is in the news. Not just a buried paragraph in the business section, but the front page. (A three-arbitrator panel issued a 34-page arbitration award finding Major League Baseball was justified in suspending baseball player Alex Rodriguez for 162 games, which A-Rod is now trying to vacate.) My own hope is that this high-profile arbitration becomes a tool for teaching the public about arbitration. Indeed, A-Rod’s experience to date offers pointers for everyone from the arbitration...
January 20, 2014
Arbitration is in the news. Not just a buried paragraph in the business section, but the front page. (A three-arbitrator panel issued a 34-page arbitration award finding Major League Baseball was justified in suspending baseball player Alex Rodriguez for 162 games, which A-Rod is now trying to vacate.) My own hope is that this high-profile arbitration becomes a tool for teaching the public about arbitration. Indeed, A-Rod’s experience to date offers pointers for everyone from the arbitration...
A-Rod’s Legal Strikeout Provides Arbitration Insights
January 14, 2014
The most recent chapter in the saga of New York Yankees third-baseman and alleged performance enhancing drug user Alex Rodriguez came to an end on January 11, when the arbitrator in his disciplinary case against Major League Baseball announced that “A-Rod” would be suspended for the entirety of the 2014 baseball season and the playoffs. The decision—the longest drug-related suspension issued in major league history—certainly doesn’t look like a win for Rodriguez, who has already become...
January 14, 2014
The most recent chapter in the saga of New York Yankees third-baseman and alleged performance enhancing drug user Alex Rodriguez came to an end on January 11, when the arbitrator in his disciplinary case against Major League Baseball announced that “A-Rod” would be suspended for the entirety of the 2014 baseball season and the playoffs. The decision—the longest drug-related suspension issued in major league history—certainly doesn’t look like a win for Rodriguez, who has already become...
Alex Rodriguez Considers The Cost of Litigating in Federal Court [Tougher Choice With Reduction]
January 11, 2014
Fascinating calculus for A-Rod to consider, in his decision of whether to seek a restraining order in federal court of any suspension he may receive: According to the source, a suspension longer than 100 games will likely lead Rodriguez and his attorneys to pursue a temporary restraining order against Horowitz’s ruling in federal court. If he is given a shorter suspension, however, “then Alex will have some things to think about,” the source told ESPNNewYork.com. According to the source,...
January 11, 2014
Fascinating calculus for A-Rod to consider, in his decision of whether to seek a restraining order in federal court of any suspension he may receive: According to the source, a suspension longer than 100 games will likely lead Rodriguez and his attorneys to pursue a temporary restraining order against Horowitz’s ruling in federal court. If he is given a shorter suspension, however, “then Alex will have some things to think about,” the source told ESPNNewYork.com. According to the source,...
