It’s too bad there’s no instant replay in real life. Then we’d know what actually happened when Frank and Jamie McCourt signed a now-infamous property agreement in 2004 as they prepared to move from Massachusetts to California, where their team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, plays baseball.
Today, L.A. County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon decided to toss the property agreement entirely. In a 100-page statement of decision, he concluded the agreement is invalid because “there was no mutual assent or meeting of the minds” between the McCourts when they signed the deal. The judge did throw Frank McCourt and his Bingham lawyer a bone, concluding that they did not exert “undue influence” on Jamie McCourt to execute the agreement. He also rejected Jamie McCourt’s lawyers’ contention that the agreement was invalid due to “constructive fraud.”
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