VAN HALEN Suit Against ORIOLES Will Go to Trial

August 11, 2005

The Associated Press is reporting that a breach-of-contract lawsuit brought by the rock group VAN HALEN against the Baltimore Orioles seeking at least $2 million from a failed concert deal will go to trial, a lawyer for the rockers said Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. last week denied the Orioles' motion for summary judgment, and a trial in District Court in Los Angeles is "imminent," according to Howard King, who represents VAN HALEN.

A trial was to have begun this month, King said, but the judge became ill.

A hearing on the Orioles' request for summary judgment was held in July, King said, and Byrne handed down the denial on Aug. 4.

The band contends in the suit filed in August 2004 that the baseball team sought to have it perform the first-ever concert inside Camden Yards and then backed out of the deal.

The proposed deal would have paid VAN HALEN $1.5 million plus 80 percent of ticket and merchandise sales.

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