Alex Rodriguez‘s cousin, Yuri Sucart, files an appeal in Biogenesis lawsuit

The cousins of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, Yuri Sucart, has filed an appeal challenging Major League Baseball’s Biogenesis lawsuit. This lawsuit gave Major League Baseball “the handle with which to turn Anthony Bosch and others as it pursued Rodriguez, Ryan Braun and other ballplayers who were alleged to have done business with the Biogenesis clinic.”

NBC Sports reports the basis for the appeal “includes some arguments which would relate only to Sucart, such as his rights under The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and his standing as a non-party to challenge the trial court’s orders. But Sucart also challenges the very foundation of the lawsuit, arguing that the trial court has no jurisdiction to hear Major League Baseball’s case at all. The reason: the dispute requires the interpretation of baseball’s Collective Bargaining Agreement in order to determine whether it was breached and state courts are forbidden from interpreting a collective bargaining agreement by operation of the Labor Management Relations Act.”

This probably won’t stop the MLB from upholding the suspensions of players because they have already agree to the suspension based on the evidence already obtained,  but could stop the MLB from ultimately going after players in similar cases down the road.

Plus, if Sucart is successful, Hardball Talk’s Craig Calcaterra believes “it could render any discipline it ultimately obtains against Alex Rodriguez the product of evidence that, were the law followed and the suit not filed, would likely have never fallen into baseball’s hands in the first place.”