$3M Washington Nationals Settlement Resolves Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Age Discrimination in Ticket Sales

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The Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC will pay a $3 million cash-and-credits settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit over alleged age-based discrimination in the team’s advertisement and sale of certain event tickets.

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The Washington Nationals class action settlement received preliminary court approval on May 21, 2025.

The settlement covers anyone who, while 40 years old or older at the time of purchase, bought at least one single-game ticket to a Nationals home game during the 2023 or 2024 Major League Baseball regular season, directly from the Nationals website, the team’s MLB.com website, by phone or at the National’s box office, between March 29, 2023 and March 28, 2024; who paid for a seat in a discount-eligible section of the stadium (i.e. — the Baseline Box, Baseline Reserved, Infield Box, Corner, Scoreboard Pavilion and Upper Gallery); and who was unable to receive the advertised discount due to not having access to the team’s “Millennial” or “Young Professional” discount because of their age.

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Should the Nationals settlement receive final approval from the court, class members are eligible to receive ticket credit as compensation sent directly to their MLB.com account. Court documents state that the value of the ticket credit will be, whichever is the greater sum between $18 or twice the amount paid for each settlement-covered ticket purchase.

No action will be required by Nationals settlement class members to receive this compensation.

Alternatively, class members who wish to receive a cash payout—which court documents say will be worth 62.2 percent of the value of original, settlement-covered ticket purchases—instead of ticket credit will, upon final approval of the deal, be able to receive such by submitting a timely, valid claim form by mail or online through the court-approved Washington Nationals Baseball Club settlement website once it is launched.

ClassAction.org will update this page if and when the official Washington Nationals Baseball Club settlement website is launched.

It is important to note that both forms of settlement compensation may be adjusted on a pro rata basis depending on the total number of claims filed or ticket credits distributed, so as to satisfy the court-approved funds of $3,000,000 equivalent value for ticket credits and $800,000 for monetary reimbursement.

The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the settlement at a hearing on June 18, 2025.

The class action suit against the Washington Nationals alleged that the National League East team’s “millennial” and “young professional” ticket discounts, available to consumers ages 21 to 39, of up to 30 percent off were discriminatory on the basis of age, such that they violated Washington D.C.’s human rights law.

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