A Thursday morning hearing will serve as the opening act of a legal drama between Jeffrey Loria, former owner of the Miami Marlins, Derek Jeter, a current owner, and Miami-Dade County, longtime owner of the team’s ballpark.
The dispute centers around Loria’s assertion that he owes nothing to Miami-Dade or Miami from his $1.2 billion sale of the franchise to Jeter and partners, despite a 2009 profit-sharing agreement that gives both governments a claim to 5 percent of the proceeds in exchange for more than $400 million in public money to build the ballpark and surrounding parking garages.