A state court judge has rejected a request from Haslam Sports Group to throw out a lawsuit filed by the City of Cleveland over the Browns’ looming move to Brook Park.
On Friday morning, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Lauren C. Moore denied the team’s motion to dismiss the case.
“The Browns have made it clear that they will not fulfill their contractual duties with the City,” Moore wrote, noting that Haslam Sports Group has been open about its moving plans, recently bought 176 acres for the Brook Park development and is assembling public and private money for the project – a $2.4 billion enclosed stadium flanked by $800 million to $1 billion of mixed-use development…