Are men in blue targets of bias in baseball? Maybe

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By Timothy Liam Epstein

Timothy Liam Epstein is a partner at Duggan, Bertsch LLC and chair of the firm’s litigation practice group and a member of the firm’s sports and entertainment/festival/event practice groups. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, teaching courses in sports law. His sports law practice is all-encompassing, but focuses on the litigation needs of players, coaches, teams and schools. He can be reached at tepstein@dugganbertsch.com.

Posted August 1, 2017 2:47 PM

Last month, a Major League Baseball umpire filed a lawsuit against MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and the MLB alleging racial discrimination in baseball’s umpire promotion and post-season assignment policies. Hernandez v. The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and Major League Baseball, 1:17-cv-00456 (W.D. Ohio 2017).Cuban-born Angel Hernandez filed suit in Ohio federal court alleging that he has been passed over multiple times for the chance to work a World Series and has not been promoted from temporary to …

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