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PGA Tour can add Saudi fund to LIV countersuit, judge rules

The PGA Tour can add Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, as defendants in its countersuit against LIV Golf, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Tuesday night.

Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the Northern District of California granted the PGA Tour's motion for leave to amend its counterclaim to add PIF and Al-Rumayyan as defendants in the countersuit, which alleges LIV Golf interfered with its contracts with players.

Attorneys representing Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and Al-Rumayyan had argued a delay would cause harm to LIV Golf players who had been suspended by PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan for competing in LIV tournaments without conflicting-event releases.

«LIV argues instead that granting leave to amend would harm both the Player Plaintiffs and LIV by potentially delaying resolution of the case,» Freeman wrote in her ruling. «According to LIV, this potential delay could harm the Player Plaintiffs by preventing them from being able to earn a living in their chosen profession during the prime of their careers, and it could harm LIV by allowing the Tour's alleged anticompetitive conduct to continue during the pendency of the case.

»While the Court is sensitive to the golfers' need to earn a living during the pendency of the case, LIV has not identified how allowing the proposed amendment would cause any of the Plaintiffs undue difficulty in prosecuting their case. Moreover, LIV's speculation that adding PIF and [Al-Rumayyan] to the Tour's existing counterclaim will delay resolution of the case does not demonstrate undue prejudice."

On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen rejected arguments from PIF lawyers that the fund and Al-Rumayyan were shielded from

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