Jury Asks for Legal Guidance

A day after passing one note, the jury in the Oakland Raiders’ $1-billion Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against the NFL passed two more Friday.

But instead of professing deadlock, as did the note sent Thursday to Judge Richard C. Hubbell, the notes sent Friday focused on points of evidence and law.

One asked about the scope--for evidence purposes--of a document relating to a 1995 proposal to build a stadium for the Raiders at Hollywood Park.

The other asked for an explanation relating to the term “fiduciary duty.”

Jury deliberations began April 30, then began again from scratch on May 4 after the original foreman was excused to go on a long-planned vacation.

The case centers on the 1995 Hollywood Park deal. The Raiders say the league sabotaged the deal, leaving the team no option but to return to its original home in Oakland. The league says the team simply got a better deal there.

The Raiders played in Los Angeles from 1982 through 1994 and also claim in the case that they still own the L.A. market for NFL football. The league says that’s not so--that it owns the L.A. market.

Deliberations head into a fourth week Monday.