The lawsuit brought by Peter Seidler’s widow against her late husband’s brothers over management of his trust has been settled, ending a chapter in the battle between Sheel Seidler and the family and clearing an obstacle to the potential sale of the Padres.

A filing in Travis County (Texas) court dated Monday said a resolution between the parties had caused Sheel Seidler to nonsuit all claims in her original lawsuit filed in January 2025 except her claims of breach of duty to distribute and demand for accounting.

In her lawsuit, Sheel Seidler accused Matthew and Robert Seidler, as successor trustees of Peter Seidler’s trust, of withholding income she was owed.

Sheel Seidler also claimed in her suit that she was the rightful control person of the Padres and contested the naming of John Seidler, Peter’s eldest brother, as trustee. John Seidler’s elevation had occurred in December 2024, and Major League Baseball owners approved him as the team’s control person in February ‘25.

An attorney for the Seidler brothers declined comment on Wednesday, and representatives for Sheel Seidler did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In November, the Seidler family announced it was exploring a sale of the team.

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MLB does not expressly prohibit the sale of a franchise involved in litigation, but multiple sources predicted that a resolution would precede any such transaction.

Team and league executives are in the process of presenting the team’s financials to prospective buyers.

Joe Lacob, the principal owner of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, is the only publicly known suitor. Lacob met with Padres officials in San Diego last week. Two league sources said the group he heads is the leading suitor. Others involved in the process characterized that as not accurate.

While Forbes valued the Padres at $1.95 billion last March, those valuations are generally considered low. In November, multiple sources with knowledge of recent team sales placed the Padres’ value at more than $2.5 billion, based on recent sales that have resulted in teams fetching 5.5 times their annual revenue.

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Approximately a dozen people or entities make up the Padres’ current ownership group.

Sheel Seidler and her three minor children are the “beneficial owners” of 24% of the team, which makes them the single largest shareholder.

The Seidler family, including Peter Seidler’s mother, Therese, who died in December, his siblings and other relatives, collectively controls another 20% of the team. The remaining portion of the ownership is split between eight to 10 other separate stakeholders.

This article will be updated.

For 15 years, St. Augustine High School’s boys basketball program has been among the elite in Southern California, winning 20-plus games in 12 of the last 14 full seasons.

After a four-win season in 2022-23, Mira Mesa has rolled to 21- and 28-win seasons.

And the way they played Tuesday, the seventh-ranked Marauders appear headed toward another impressive one.

Senior Diego Ortiz finished with 29 points, three rebounds and two blocks as Mira Mesa delivered a convincing 72-58 Western League win on the Saints’ home court.

The Marauders played the final three quarters without leading scorer Tim Dorn, who tweaked his ankle seconds into the second quarter. Dorn was able to leave the game and the gym under his own power.

“I love being the engine, the go-to guy,” Ortiiz said. “I’ve had bigger offensive games, but to score 29 against the Saints in their gym is memorable.”

After a back-and-forth opening quarter that saw four lead changes, Mira Mesa opened a 10-point lead in the second quarter and led by seven at the break.

The Marauders (18-6, 4-1) led by 15 points early in the fourth quarter before St. Augustine (13-12, 3-3) cut the deficit to eight with 4:02 to play.

But a 13-4 Mira Mesa run put an end to the game.

“This was a huge game for both teams,” Ortiz said. “The winner had a good shot at winning the league. You can’t let down against St. Augustine. You have to practice hard and prepare for them.

“And you have to lock in during the game, because every possession is important.”

Mira Mesa is headed for the Open Division playoffs and, with a run, could find itself at Oceanside’s Frontwave Arena for the finals. Count Ortiz among the Marauders who are excited by that possibility.

“I went and saw the G League Clippers play there last week, and it’s a beautiful arena,” he said. “It’s somewhere I’d love to play.”

Mira Mesa will finish league play with games against San Diego, Cathedral Catholic and first-place Mission Bay.

“It’s there for the taking,” said Mira Mesa coach Jon Pierce. “But it certainly won’t be easy.”

Jase Davis backed Ortiiz with 13 points and Che Lesperance added 11.

Pai Polamaul led St. Augustine with 14 points and six rebounds; teammate Justin Murigu grabbed eight rebounds and blocked two shots.

Mira Mesa forced 17 Saints turnovers.  St. Augustine coach Mike Haupt saw his team throw away an inbounds pass with three seconds to play and said to no one in particular: “Fitting. Just fitting.”

Construction is expected to start later this year and be completed in about seven months on an additional one-mile segment of the Coastal Rail Trail between Palomar Airport Road and the Poinsettia Coaster Station in Carlsbad.

“This city project will beautify and improve the middle stretch of Avenida Encinas, providing a uniform street width, complete street improvements, utility undergrounding and landscaping,” said Carlsbad Senior Planner Scott Donnell.

“Large gaps in the bike lanes and sidewalk systems will be completed, and mid-block pedestrian crossings with flashing beacons will be added,” Donnell said, in a recent presentation to the Carlsbad Planning Commission.

Avenida Encinas is a neighborhood street about four miles long. The segment of the street to be improved for the trail is between Palomar Airport Road and the Poinsettia Coaster Station.

The construction will include a retaining wall between the street and the eastern side of the railroad, Donnell said. The trail is about 1,000 feet from the coastline.

Longer-term plans call for the trail to continue south on Encinas Avenue until it links up with Carlsbad Boulevard, also known as Coast Highway 101, where it will connect with the trail in Encinitas.

The Coastal Rail Trail idea emerged in the 1990s as a plan for a 42-mile hiking and biking trail along the railroad tracks between the Oceanside Transit Center and the Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego.

Since then each city along the route has completed portions of the trail. However, challenges such as the creeks and coastal lagoons have slowed progress and required a few segments to be routed away from the rails and onto nearby surface streets.

The scenic coastal route is one of the most popular in San Diego County for joggers, cyclists and sightseers.

More athletic cyclists, often traveling in packs, tend to avoid the rail trail with its pedestrians and people pushing strollers. Instead, the Lycra-clad crowd sticks to the faster-paced coastal highway.

Carlsbad has a stand-alone piece of the rail trail along the eastern side of the tracks between Tamarack and Oak avenues, with easy access to the downtown Village and Barrio neighborhoods.

Another unfinished piece of the trail in Carlsbad will eventually go between Tamarack Avenue and Cannon Road. The obstacle there has been the Agua Hedionda Lagoon that will require a separate bridge for which so far there’s no construction funding.

Oceanside completed a piece of the rail trail from Oceanside Boulevard to Wisconsin Avenue in 2014.

Construction will start this year on Oceanside’s final piece of the trail, a half-mile segment from Oceanside Boulevard south through Buccaneer Park to a connection at South Myers Street.

The project includes the installation of a prefabricated, steel-truss bridge for cyclists and pedestrians beside the railroad bridge across Loma Alta Creek in the park. The need for a separate bridge is the main reason Oceanside’s last segment remains incomplete. Construction, largely covered by grant money, is expected to cost about $14 million.

Solana Beach completed a 1.7-mile, meandering section of the trail lined with landscaping, sculptures and creative archways about 20 years ago.

Earlier this month, the Solana Beach City Council formally accepted a $300,000 state grant for the construction of a final piece in that city that will extend the trail from its end at Ocean Street north to the southern boundary of Encinitas. The total cost there is a little more than $1 million. Construction is expected in 2027.

“This project will create a smoother and safer transition into the protected bike lane in Encinitas,” state Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, said in a Jan. 22 announcement of the grant.

Encinitas has a 1.3-mile segment of the trail from Chesterfield Drive to Santa Fe Drive that opened to the public in 2019. Additional pieces in Encinitas also are planned.