Meanwhile, in the American legal system:

In its legal papers, the team referenced a number of articles from the past decade using the term in connection with the Yankees, and conceded that the team has “implicitly embraced” the “Evil Empire” theme by playing music from Star Wars during their home games.

The context is as silly as you’d imagine, but the punchline on all of this is that the Yankees do get to claim “Evil” when it refers to baseball.