MUMBAI: US sports broadcaster Fox Sports has sued the baseball team Los Angeles Dodgers over the proposed television rights sale.

In the filing, Fox Sports Net West asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject any proposed sale of the Dodgers? television rights that does not abide by the terms of the current contract.

Fox retains exclusive negotiating rights through November 2012, as well as the right to match any other offer under that contract. Fox is looking for damages and has also accused the Dodgers of sharing confidential broadcast rights information.

Earlier the Dodgers had filed for bankruptcy in June after Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig named a monitor to oversee the team?s day-to-day operations and rejected a proposed television- rights deal with Fox Sports.

In June, The Los Angeles Dodgers had blamed Major League Baseball for rejecting a television deal that would have given the baseball team cash.

The filing marked an attempt by Dodgers owner Frank McCourt to prevent the league and MLB Commissioner Bud Selig from seizing the team, which McCourt had bought back in 2004.