AEG facing legal deadline

Facing a tight deadline for its downtown football stadium, AEG President Tim Leiweke said the developer will push for expedited reviews of expected legal challenges. Dakota Smith in the Daily News.

Speaking Wednesday night to the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, Leiweke said Anschutz Entertainment Group is looking to the Legislature to impose rules that would require challenges to its proposed 72,000-seat stadium to be resolved through arbitration rather than the courts.

"I think we have found a solution with the state that any legal challenge will go to binding arbitration," Leiweke said.

Leiweke's public comments concerning legal challenges were some of the executive's most detailed yet on what he is asking from Sacramento lawmakers.