Local News in Brief : Raiders’ Suit in Jeopardy

A Superior Court judge said Monday that she is leaning toward throwing out the Los Angeles Raiders’ $9.5-million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the Coliseum Commission.

A court clerk said the decision by Judge Dzintra Janavs could come at any time.

Attorneys for the commission, which is suing the Raiders for $57 million on grounds of breach of contract, recently asked Janavs to grant summary judgment, dismissing the Raiders’ countersuit, citing what they termed a flat contradiction in sworn testimony by team owner Al Davis on the question of whether there were oral additions to the 1982 agreement that brought the football team to Los Angeles.

A central point in the Raiders’ lawsuit is that the team had received unfulfilled oral promises that the Coliseum would be renovated. But Davis testified in an earlier proceeding that the written contract contained all the terms of the deal.