Oral arguments are scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in the Nevada Supreme Court between a political action committee and lobbyists for the Oakland Athletics regarding a state law allocating up to $380 million in public funds for the proposed stadium of Las Vegas of the Major League Baseball team.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding a trial judge’s decision last year to halt a petition referendum that sought to put public funding of the A’s to a public vote, passed last summer as Senate Bill 1 ( SB1). A’s lobbyists Danny Thompson and Thomas Morley filed a lawsuit last year calling the ballot petition misleading for containing only parts of SB1.
The referendum petition is being promoted by Schools Over Stadiums, a political action committee created by the Nevada State Education Association.
In November, District Judge James Russell ruled in favor of the A’s, halting the petition efforts. Schools Over Stadiums appealed to the Supreme Court.
If the appeal is successful, Schools Over Stadiums would have until July 8 to gather 102,363 verified signatures from registered Nevada voters who participated in the 2022 general election to place the A’s public financing plan on the November ballot for a public vote.
The A’s plan to begin construction in April 2025 on the 33,000-fan stadium, which will be located on 9 acres of the 35-acre site of the former Tropicana Las Vegas. Tentative plans call for demolition of the Tropicana in October and site cleanup and preparation in the following months to have the land ready for construction next spring.
The A’s plan to begin play in Las Vegas in 2028 and will play their final season in Oakland this year, before playing at home in a Triple-A stadium in Sacramento in the interim between 2025-2027.
2024-04-09 19:04:45
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