Court Stays Race Promoter’s Claims, Pending Arbitration

A federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois has granted a motion brought by the United States Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer to stay the antitrust and civil RICO claims brought against them by a promoter, pending arbitration.   ChampionsWorld LLC, former promoter of international professional men’s soccer matches, sued the defendants on May 2, 2006. It claimed that after reaching “a series of ‘match agreements’” with the USSF in which the governing body agreed