DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum Haslems Buy 176 Acre Property In Brookpark

Kucinich is simply saying this to try and be relevant again.

The Brookpark Dome, home of the Haslam Clown Show, a billionaire’s toy hobby and a way to wash his ill gotten gains. That’ll make a killer tee.

Well, I happy you found a sliver of opposition to my view of this debacle. Are you feeling warm and fuzzy all over now? Ffs, smh.

The way I read the law is the Haslams will need to offer up the team to new owners that are willing to keep the team where it is before they can move out of the tax revenue area that is currently supporting and supplementing the stadium in the first place.

I hope the court throws out their law suit and forces the Haslams to sell.

I think you will find the wording requires Haslam to keep the team "within the greater Cleveland area" and not "within the city limits of Cleveland".

Brook Park qualifies and this is just grasping at straws and desperation. Yet another frivolous lawsuit.

No owner of a professional sports team that uses a tax-supported facility for most of its home games and receives financial assistance from the state or a political subdivision thereof shall cease playing most of its home games at the facility and begin playing most of its home games elsewhere unless the owner either:

(A) Enters into an agreement with the political subdivision permitting the team to play most of its home games elsewhere;

(B) Gives the political subdivision in which the facility is located not less than six months' advance notice of the owner's intention to cease playing most of its home games at the facility and, during the six months after such notice, gives the political subdivision or any individual or group of individuals who reside in the area the opportunity to purchase the team.

(1) "Political subdivision" means any body corporate and politic, except a municipal corporation that has adopted a charter under Section 7 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, and except a county that has adopted a charter under Sections 3 and 4 of Article X, Ohio Constitution, to which both of the following apply:

(a) It is responsible for governmental activities only in a geographic area smaller than the state.

(b) It is subject to the sovereign immunity of the state.

gives the political subdivision or any individual or group of individuals who reside in the area the opportunity to purchase the team.

Even when the lease is expiring? It's well in advance of six months of the 2028 season. So they can hold him legally bound to stay there with no agreed lease in place moving forward? I'm not sure how that would be legal under any circumstances.

And the taxpayers of the city of Cleveland will have their tax dollars wasted in a losing cause. I don't see how it's in any way possible to hold someone to contractual terms on an expired lease.

It won't work.

The law that's on the books. It will not stand up in court.

And while they may claim a win if the new dome is built in Brook Park it will obviously be a loss.

I think any business who wants to move to a better location that isn't under a lease or contractual agreement has the right to relocate. And especially in a case such as this where it's within reasonable proximity to where it is currently located. Trying to create laws that restrict a business who is not under a lease be forced to stay there goes against everything that sounds proper to me. It looks more like a hostage situation than a law.

In essence you are holding a business up for ransom and/or as a hostage. Such a law should never have been created in the first place and with the right attorney's it should never stand up in court.

In case you missed it, precedent doesn't mean much anymore and that extends all the way up to the highest court in the land.

And that's fine if you think that taking public money can hold a businessman hostage in perpetuity. I think that's where this entire thing will fall apart.

So what is the time frame Haslam is held to according to the law? 20 years? 30 years? The term of the lease? If there is no set ending that is perpetuity by definition.