Payne Class Action Suit Against Major League Baseball Involving ‘Baseball Rule’ Is Dismissed

By Ed Edmonds   On November 16, 2016, United States District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California dismissed a class action lawsuit against Major League Baseball, the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, and Commissioner Rob Manfred seeking additional screening extending from foul pole to foul pole and general safety improvements preventing fan injuries from foul balls, flying bats, broken pieces of bats, or thrown balls that enter the stands. For the