Case Name: In the Matter of TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, Appellant-Respondent, v. WN Partner, LLC, et al., Respondents, and Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, et al., Respondents-Appellants; In the Matter of TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, Respondent, v. WN Partner, LLC, et al., Respondents, and Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2017-07-13
Citations: 153 A.D.3d 140
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, Appellant-Respondent, v WN Partner, LLC, et al., Respondents, and Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, et al., Respondents-Appellants. In the Matter of TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, Respondent, v WN Partner, LLC, et al., Respondents, and Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, Appellant.
Judges: Ajndrias and Richter, JJ., concur in a separate opinion by Andrias, J.; Kahn, J., concurs in a separate opinion; Acosta, P.J., and Gesmer, J., dissent in part in an opinion by Acosta, P.J.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 153
Pages: 140–181

Head Matter:
[59 NYS3d 672]
In the Matter of TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, Appellant-Respondent, v WN Partner, LLC, et al., Respondents, and Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, et al., Respondents-Appellants. In the Matter of TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, Respondent, v WN Partner, LLC, et al., Respondents, and Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, Appellant.
First Department,
July 13, 2017
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York City (Thomas J. Hall of counsel), and Cooley LLP, New York City (.Rachel W. Thorn, Alan Levine and Caroline Pignatelli of counsel), for TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, appellant-respondent/respondent.
Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C. (Carter G. Phillips of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for TCR Sports Broadcasting Holding, LLP, and others, appellants-respondents/respondents.
Sidley Austin LLP, New York City (.Benjamin R. Nagin, Ea-mon P. Joyce, Kwaku A. Akowuah and Tobias S. Loss-Eaton of counsel), for the Baltimore Orioles Baseball Club and another, appellants-respondents/respondents.
Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC, Baltimore, Maryland (Arón U. Raskas of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars, and Arnold M. Weiner of the Maryland bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), and Sidley Austin LLP, New York City (Charles S. Fax of counsel), for Baltimore-Orioles Limited Partnership, appellant-respondent/respondent.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York City (,Stephen R. Neuwirth, Sanford I. Weisburst, Julia J. Peck and Cleland B. Welton II of counsel), for Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, respondent-appellant/respondent.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, D.C. {Paul Clement of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, Erin E. Murphy of the District of Columbia and Virginia bars, admitted pro hac vice, and Michael H. McGinley of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), Williams & Connolly, New York City {John J. Buckley, Jr. of counsel), and Lupkin and Associates, New York City {Jonathan D. Lupkin of counsel), for the Office of Commissioner of Baseball and another, respondents-appellants.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York City {David G. Keyko of counsel), for E. Leo Milonas, amicus curiae.
Jenner Block LLP, New York City {Stephen L. Ascher, Irene M. Ten Cate and Jeremy H. Ershow of counsel), for Diamond Dealers Club, Inc., amicus curiae.
Moses & Singer LLP, New York City {Lawrence L. Ginsburg, Jay R. Fialkoff and Robert B. McFarlane of counsel), for Kenneth R. Feinberg, amicus curiae.
Friedman Kaplan Seiler and Adelman, New York City (Robert S. Smith, Robert J. Lack and Nora Bojar of counsel), for Robert S. Smith, amicus curiae.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Per Curiam.
The order of the Supreme Court, New York County (Lawrence K. Marks, J.), entered on or about November 4, 2015, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied respondent Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC's motion to confirm an arbitration award issued June 30, 2014 by Major League Baseball's Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee, granted the part of petitioner's motion seeking to vacate the award, and denied the part of petitioner's motion seeking to direct that a second arbitration proceed before an impartial panel unaffiliated with Major League Baseball, should be affirmed, without costs. The order of the same court and Justice, entered July 11, 2016, which denied the Nationals' motion to compel the parties to re-arbitrate the claim before the Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee, and granted petitioner's cross motion to stay the parties from compelling or conducting another arbitration of this dispute until the final determination of the appeals from the November 4, 2015 order, should be modified, on the law, to grant the Nationals' motion, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.