{"id":233405,"date":"2026-04-03T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233405\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:26:07","slug":"dallas-mavericks-score-first-win-in-legal-fight-with-dallas-stars-over-american-airlines-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233405\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks score first win in legal fight with Dallas Stars over American Airlines Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Mavericks on Thursday \u201clanded multiple body blows that seemingly staggered the Stars\u2019 standing\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/01\/dallas-divide-mavericks-stars-arena-feud-reveals-pressures-of-soaring-valuations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">their legal skirmish over American Airlines Center<\/a>, the \u201cfirst significant rulings\u201d of the battle. Texas Business Court Judge Bill Whitehill \u201cissued 91 pages of opinion and order\u201d regarding the teams\u2019 combined seven summary judgment claims, and he \u201cruled in the Mavericks\u2019 favor\u201d on \u201cmost of the claims.\u201d The case \u201cby no means appears over, however,\u201d with Stars attorney Joshua Sandler saying that he \u201clooks forward to\u201d the scheduled May 11 jury trial to \u201csettle what he called \u2018numerous\u2019 issues that remain.\u201d For now, it appears, the Mavericks \u201ccan assert control\u201d of Center Operating Company, which controls American Airlines Center, \u201cuntil and unless a jury trial decides otherwise\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/dallas-mavs-stars-lawsuit-american-airlines-center-22186578.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 4\/2<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mavericks on Thursday \u201clanded multiple body blows that seemingly staggered the Stars\u2019 standing\u201d in their legal skirmish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1770,102,104,103,1116,3080,2484],"class_list":{"0":"post-233405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nhl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}