BY KTAR
Maricopa County filed Friday a motion to dismiss the Arizona Diamondbacks’ lawsuit in an a yearlong battle over maintenance costs for Chase Field in downtown Phoenix.
In a statement announcing Friday’s motion to dismiss the suit, the county said the team pays rent to play at Chase Field and the ongoing argument basically boils down to a tenant disliking how its landowner spends that rent.
“They signed the contracts and the contracts say: the Diamondbacks are the tenant, the Stadium District is the landlord, and … the simple fact is, they’re not allowed to sue just because they’re unhappy with their landlord,” Grady Gammage, one of the attorneys representing Maricopa County, said.
