Talk about a dragged out legal case.

The Supreme Court today settled a dispute between the owners of the former Ottawa Rapidz baseball team and the Can-Am Baseball League and City of Ottawa.

The Rapidz, remember them?

The short story is the city and the other respondents in the case won.

To understand the crux of the case, it’s helpful to read the Ontario Court of Appeal decision from October 2010.

Basically, there was a contract dispute between the owners and the league. The city was named because it owns Ottawa Stadium. The owners felt their team was wrongly dropped from the Can-Am league, causing a $200,000 exit penalty. They sued in provincial court, the judge dismissed the suit because there was something in the original contract that said disputes were to be handled by the courts in North Carolina, where the league is headquartered.

The appeal court dismissed the case and the country’s highest court agreed, with legal costs owed to the parties which were sued. And according to a memo sent this afternoon by city solicitor Rick O’Connor, the city will seek those costs.

Now, can we just play some baseball, please?