Dodgers Are Pressing MLB For Files in Bankruptcy Court

M.L.B.’s actions reflected its “scheme to force a liquidity crisis” for the Dodgers, the filing said.

Team lawyers said in a motion filed in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware that M.L.B. had refused to turn over many of the documents they asked for last weekend. The team said the evidence it was seeking would demonstrate M.L.B.’s “bad faith” dealings in denying it the cash it needed to avoid bankruptcy.

It said the evidence would also show that baseball’s top executives, including Commissioner Bud Selig, had “treated the Dodgers more severely than other baseball teams in comparable circumstances.”