{"id":119555,"date":"2017-04-12T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119555"},"modified":"2017-04-12T14:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:14:25","slug":"st-louis-sues-nfl-relocating-rams-to-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119555","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis sues NFL, relocating Rams to L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-62227\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ramslogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"85\" \/>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 The city of St. Louis and that region&#8217;s sports authority are suing the National Football League over the Rams&#8217; relocation to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court also names the NFL&#8217;s 32 teams as defendants and seeks unspecified damages and restitution.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges the Rams failed to meet league relocation rules when leaving for Los Angeles before last season, constituting a contractual breach with St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that St. Louis has lost an estimated $1.85 million to $3.5 million each year in amusement and ticket tax collections, as well as roughly $7.5 million in property taxes. In total, the city will have lost more than $100 million in net proceeds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 The city of St. Louis and that region&#8217;s sports authority are suing the National Football League over the Rams&#8217; relocation to Los Angeles. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court also names the NFL&#8217;s 32 teams as defendants and seeks unspecified damages and restitution. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119556,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119555\/revisions\/119556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}