SAN FRANCISCO -- Major League Baseball's players union said Thursday it would challenge a federal appeals court's decision to give prosecutors access to the names and urine samples of about 100 players who tested positive for steroids in 2003.

Barry Bonds' attorney downplayed the significance of a court ruling Wednesday allowing federal investigators access to confidential MLB drug-testing data from 2003.

Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said if Wednesday's decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals "is allowed to stand, it will effectively repeal the Fourth Amendment for confidential electronic records."

Fehr said he was consulting with union attorneys to "determine what our next step should be in our fight to protect the constitutional rights, including the basic right to privacy, of our members."

Story continued here! (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2710788)



Seriously, if your members are breaking federal law you do not get privacy rights. It's the same as them doing any other illegal drug.

Anyone else got an opinion on this?

my opinion is that you should use a smaller font

At least you have some thought.

What is this doing on the Snote board?
I see no mention of the good Lord Snote in this article.

Snote is not the place for this nonsense. Snote is very angry.

Please explain what the Sportsnote Board is for if not notes from sports and discussion thereof; not that anyone around here yet has even come close to addressing the discussion at hand.

I think Major League baseball has been out of line since the strike.

Do you even have any idea (w/o searching) as to the NFL strikes? The last was in 1987; just seven short years older than this MLB strike which you mention.

I think the NFL had one in 82.

They did have one in '82; these were not the only two. Free Agency has changed sports completely. This is still getting back on topic since part of the above story has to do with the Players Union thinking they are above the law.

Snoteball has never had a strike.

Snoteball has never had a strike.

That is right we have great labor relations.

I might hit it.

I might hit it.

You have poor bat speed.

This is the section Saintreport sends all of its idiots took I was wonder what we did with the idiots. Now listen, every board has idiots that post stupid topics that make no sense and waste your time,and everyboard has those idiots that post irrelevent responses to meaningful topics, but they don't show up in the Superforum all to often. I am glad there is a place for those that don't want to discuss topics in a meaningful way to be idiots, so I never have to read another stupid post in this forum again.

This is the section Saintreport sends all of its idiots took I was wonder what we did with the idiots. Now listen, every board has idiots that post stupid topics that make no sense and waste your time,and everyboard has those idiots that post irrelevent responses to meaningful topics, but they don't show up in the Superforum all to often. I am glad there is a place for those that don't want to discuss topics in a meaningful way to be idiots, so I never have to read another stupid post in this forum again.

I agree

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This is the section Saintreport sends all of its idiots took I was wonder what we did with the idiots.

zippity doo daa!

Dear Cubfan,

What is this "baseball" you speak of?

signed -- New Orleans