{"id":18674,"date":"2025-01-16T03:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18674"},"modified":"2025-01-16T03:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:13:42","slug":"report-browns-are-being-sued-by-city-of-cleveland-over-proposed-move-to-build-stadium-in-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18674","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Browns Are Being Sued By City Of Cleveland Over Proposed Move To Build Stadium In Suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The city of Cleveland has filed a lawsuit against the Browns over their proposed move to build a stadium in the Brook Park suburb.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_2_host\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the lawsuit filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court (h\/t\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/you-cant-take-the-money-and-run-city-of-cleveland-sues-the-browns-over-modell-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michelle Jarboe<\/a>\u00a0of Cleveland.com), lawyers for the city are seeking to invoke the \u201cModell law\u201d that states a sports team owner that uses a tax-supported facility for home games and receives funding from the state or a political subdivision can\u2019t move unless it gives a notice of at least six months or receives permission from local government officials to do so.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As the Cleveland Browns set their sights on the suburbs, Ohio\u2019s top cop is weighing in on the escalating fight over the Modell law, a state law designed to make it harder for pro sports teams to leave publicly subsidized facilities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OWw1BoS364\">https:\/\/t.co\/OWw1BoS364<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michelle Jarboe (@mjarboe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjarboe\/status\/1879713201492738304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The City of Cleveland has sued the Haslam Sports Group &amp; Cleveland <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Browns<\/a> in Cuyahoga County Court for violating the &#8216;Modell Law&#8217; of 1996 by proposing to build a dome in Brook Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RuiterWrongFAN\/status\/1879298979164573972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jarboe noted the Modell law has never been fully tested since it went into law. The closest it came was in 2018 when the city of Columbus invoked it in a lawsuit after the owners of the Columbus Crew were threatening to move the MLS club to Texas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1895512242384960\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-status=\"unfilled\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_3_host\"><\/div>\n<p><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>The Browns\u2019 current lease with Huntington Bank Field runs through the 2028 season. If the team is approved for a new stadium, the goal would be to have it ready for the start of the 2029 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The city of Cleveland has filed a lawsuit against the Browns over their proposed move to build a stadium in the Brook Park suburb. &nbsp; &nbsp; In the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18676,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18674\/revisions\/18676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}