What is confusing to me is why the courts have allowed appeals and such to go on for so long.
I think it was a bit of sloppy lawyering that created an appealable issue. Arbitration is quick and bad for the party forced into arbitration, which in this case was Angelos. MLB ran the arbitration and put the clause in there. This should have been relatively easy to resolve. However, they gave an opening to Angelos to appeal when they used the same firm to represent MLB (or the Lerners) and to conduct the arbitration. Courts have so few opportunities to police arbitration that they got slammed in the trial court which caused the whole process to start over. OTOH, I can't figure out why the restrarted process has taken so long. I'm guessing that there's an attempt to cut a settlement in lieu of forcing MASN into bankruptcy (and messy discovery in the court process).
