New York’s High Court Ends Marathon Television Rights Valuation Dispute

By Irwin A. Kishner, Daniel A. Etna and Silvia Stockman, of Herrick Feinstein LLP An April 2023 decision from the Court of Appeals of New York has brought an end to the decade-long valuation dispute over telecast fees involving the Washington Nationals, Baltimore Orioles, and their broadcasting network. After several years of arbitration within MLB’s internal forum—and several more of litigation in New York state courts disputing the validity of that arbitration process—New York’s hig