LEGAL representatives for Lauderhill Mayor Richard J Kaplan have filed a motion seeking to dismiss the USA Cricket Association lawsuit which is attempting to stop six Caribbean Premier League games from happening at the Central Broward Regional Park in Florida next week.Douglas T Marx, of law firm Waldman Trigoboff Hildebrandt Marx & Calnan, filed a motion yesterday afternoon, on behalf of Kaplan, arguing for a dismissal on procedural grounds as well as defending the sanctioning process as legitimate.
A suit was filed on Monday by former USACA executive secretary Kenwyn Williams, with USACA as a co-plaintiff, claiming that the CPL had violated sanctioning procedures by going through the ICC to receive permission to stage the event in Florida instead of USACA, the governing body in the USA.
Kaplan told ESPNcricinfo on Wednesday that he was confident the suit would fail, and that local officials had gone through the proper sanctioning with the ICC since USACA’s authority was stripped after suspension by the ICC in June 2015.
In the filing submitted on Wednesday, Marx argued two points. First, Williams filed the suit as a pro se litigant, meaning Williams is prosecuting the case on his own. Marx’s filing states that Williams is not licensed to practice law in Florida and thus the case should be thrown out. Williams, who resides in New Jersey, has worked in the past as a paralegal for a New York law firm.
The games are scheduled to be held from July 28 to 31 in Lauderhill. (ESPN Cricinfo)