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A group of business owners is asking the league pay $1 billion in punitive damages.

Atlanta business group sues MLB for moving All-Star Game Job Creators Network, a conservative organization that represents small businesses, is suing Major League Baseball for moving the July All-Star Game out of Atlanta. In a 21-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, Job Creators Network seeks the return of the game to the Georgia capital, $100 million in damages to local and state small businesses, and $1 billion in punitive damages. The group referred to events that caused the league’s decision, including Republican Georgia Gov. B...

"MLB robbed the small businesses of Atlanta—many of them minority-owned—of $100 million," says Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network.

The Job Creators Network’s lawsuit looks more like a mechanism to raise donations and grab headlines than like a proper use of the legal system.

Major League Baseball (MLB) and the league's players union were hit this week with a lawsuit for moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia earlier this year.