Donald Sterling to seek ban of medical records in dispute with wife

Source: LA Times

Saying that Donald Sterling’s privacy rights have been “ignored and trampled,” a lawyer for the Clippers owner said Thursday he would ask a federal court judge to prevent Sterling’s wife from using records about his mental capacity to strip away his control of the team.

The surprise action to move the contentious fight between Donald and Shelly Sterling to federal court could delay a hearing Monday in which a Los Angeles probate judge is scheduled to hear evidence about whether Shelly properly invoked an incapacity clause in a family trust to take control of the NBA team.

While Sterling’s lawyers presented their latest action as a bid to preserve his rights, his wife’s lead lawyer called the gambit “a desperate act by a desperate man” -- designed to kill her record-setting $2-billion sale of the Clippers to former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.

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