The Cleveland Browns filed a lawsuit against the city of Cleveland to challenge a state law designed to stop teams from leaving cities that subsidized them with taxpayers.
Sean McDonnell, cleveland.comDave Jenkins, chief operating officer for the Haslam Sports Group, said in a statement that the team is “seeking clarity on this vague and unclear law.”
The law was named after Art Modell — the locally despised former Browns owner, who uprooted the team and moved it to Baltimore in 1996. The law requires sports teams to give their respective cities six-months’ notice before leaving town and to give the city or area residents a chance to buy the team first.
Kucinich said taxpayers have an interest in keeping the team in Cleveland, having spent hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds on the team. He said he expects the Modell Law to overcome the challenge.
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