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The Raiders have lost an appeal before the California Supreme Court in the latest development in the Raiders' decades-long claim that the NFL sabotaged their effort to build a stadium at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles.

For more than 20 years, the Raiders have claimed that the league office didn't do enough to help the team find a newer, nicer home than the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where it played from 1982 to 1994. The Raiders left Oakland after the 1981 season and returned in 1995.

A jury ruled for the NFL in 2001, but a new trial was ordered when the Raiders claimed that one juror was biased against the team because he said he once lost money betting on the Raiders and that another juror, a lawyer, gave his fellow jurors legal information that the judge didn't provide. But a state appeals court overturned the decision to order a new trial, and the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that the verdict against the Raiders stands.

The Supreme Court ruling rejected the Raiders' case because jurors' recollection of deliberations were "sharply conflicting on every material issue, and the Raiders submitted no other evidence to support their motion for a new trial."

The ruling may finally bring to an end the string of lawsuits the Raiders have had against the league and the stadiums where they've played.

NFL attorney Greg Levy said, "A clean sweep is a fair characterization."

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