By Bill Shaikin | LA Times
Fifteen months ago, a Nevada teachers’ union launched a two-pronged legal battle to strip public funding from the Oakland Athletics’ proposed Las Vegas ballpark.
In the litigation, funded largely by A’s fans grasping at any hope of keeping their team in town, the union has gone 0 for 2.
In May, the Nevada Supreme Court rejected a union bid to let voters decide the issue in a statewide referendum. And, on Friday, a state district court judge rejected a union bid to halt some or all of the $380 million allocated by the Nevada legislature because the bill allegedly violated the state constitution.
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