If the Raiders, Rams or Chargers do move to Los Angeles next season, hometown fans might want to pin the blame on two unlikely culprits: the California Supreme Court and Wal-Mart.
The high court's ruling last summer blessing a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter in Sonora has helped NFL teams seeking to move to proposed Los Angeles-area stadium sites in Carson and Inglewood sidestep California's rigorous, time-consuming and often litigious system of environmental review.