San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer is communicating with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell seeking ways to keep the Chargers in the city. (Photo : REUTERS)
San Diego Chargers fans are pursuing a lawsuit against the NFL and the Chargers on antitrust grounds in an effort to keep the team in the city.
Dan Jauregui, a main proponent of this action, filed a letter with the San Diego City Attorney's Office demanding that the city file a lawsuit against the relocation to protect the rights of citizens.
However, the office of City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said that the City is not planning to file an lawsuit against the NFL and Chargers.
This is due to the lease agreement between the City of San Diego and the Chargers that the team may relocate after the 2008 season outside.
The City also agreed to waive any claim based upon such relocation.
Meanwhile, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer updated NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about the Chargers' stadium situation in another effort to persuade the team to stay.
Faulconer spoke to Goodell for 45 minutes and expressed his desire to broker a fair plan.
It was agreed that the city-county negotiating team will communicate ahead of the NFL owners meeting scheduled on Aug. 11 in Chicago to address the relocation effort in Los Angeles.
Furthermore, city-county chief negotiator Christopher Melvin will meet with Eric Grubman, NFL's point person on the issue of relocation to Los Angeles, on Tuesday.
Melvin will provide an update on San Diego's environmental analysis for a new stadium.
The Chargers' Mihlsten complained last week that San Diego has not presented a plan to deal with the
California Environmental Quality Act that would get the project done before year'send.
Meanwhile, progress is being made on a proposed stadium in Carson, a suburb in Los Angeles, that the Chargers could use if it relocates and which it could share with the Oakland Raiders.
The Chargers and Raiders plan to build a $1.7 billion facility on 168 acres near Interstate 405 in Carson.
