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LA court rules no legal error on Clippers's sale

Xinhua, November 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

A California appeals court on Monday unanimously rejected former Clippers owner Donald Sterling's attempt to reverse last year's sale of the NBA franchise, local media reported.

   The three-justice panel of the court ruled that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas did not commit legal errors when he approved the team's sale last year to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for 2 billion dollars in July 2014.

   The court also said that Sterling's wife, Shelly Sterling, acted in the best interests of the trust's beneficiaries when she sold the team for an amount higher than she and her advisers thought was possible.

   In April 2014, Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined 2.5 million dollars by the league after private recordings of him making racist comments were made public. 

   Donald Sterling filed for divorce from Shelly Sterling in August.  Endi