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Boston Red Sox Counsel Knew That One Was Coming

Judge Forrest could read the signs when she appeared before Judge Rakoff.

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With daily fantasy expanding across the nation, inveterate cheating like MLB caught the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox wrapped up in now has a potentially bigger pricetag. A Massachusetts man filed a proposed class action looking to recover millions in losses incurred by unlucky players who couldn’t figure out why their opponents kept crushing them stockpiling Red Sox.

The teams apparently used equipment to steal signs and sending in the cues to batters by beating a garbage can. Careful review of Houston’s world championship season is downright hilarious because when you know what to listen for it’s clear the Astros did more tubthumping than Chumbawamba.

The Red Sox have hired Cravath for the matter, bringing Judge Katherine Forrest back to the SDNY on the opposite side of the bench after she left her seat in 2018. The appearance was about coming full circle in another way since she appeared before Judge Jed Rakoff… the judge she originally replaced on the court.

Thanks to some inside tips, Judge Forrest wasn’t going to be thrown by some needling. From Law360:

“What was that name again?” Judge Rakoff quipped, drawing a smile in court from Forrest, the retired legal umpire who made her return to Manhattan federal court after leaving the judiciary in 2018 to rejoin Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.

Zing.

Ex-Judge Endures Ribbing From Rakoff In Return To Court [Law360]

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