MLB sued for pulling All-Star Game from Atlanta

A group of conservative business owners on Monday filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Players Association (MLBPA) over the decision to move the 2021 All-Star Game out of Georgia because of the state's controversial new voting law. Job Creators Network (JCN) is seeking the return of the game to Atlanta, $100 million in damages and a punitive award of up to $1 billion.

The JCN said that the league "decided to punish the people and small businesses of Atlanta purposefully and maliciously" by moving the game, rather than appealing to state lawmakers.  Among the claims leveled against the defendants in the 21-page lawsuit is that they violated a 150-year-old civil rights law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, which is "intended to protect against conspiracies resulting in damages to another in his person or property." The lawsuit also accuses MLB of violating the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.