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Judge Tosses Out $4.7 Billion Jury Verdict Against NFL In Class Action Lawsuit
A federal judge tossed out a jury’s $4.7 billion judgment against the NFL over the price of its NFL Sunday Ticket subscriptions, concluding that the experts put forth by the class action plaintiffs were using faulty economic models. U.S. District Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez granted the NFL’s motion for judgment as a matter of […]
U.S. District Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez granted the NFL’s motion for judgment as a matter of law, ruling that, without the reliable expert witnesses, it was “impossible for a jury to determine on a class-wide basis that Sunday Ticket subscribers would have indeed paid less in the absence of Defendants’ anticompetitive conduct. Thus, Plaintiffs failed to provide evidence from which a reasonable jury could make a finding of injury and an award of actual damages that would not be erroneous as a matter of law, be totally unfounded and/or be purely speculative.” It was just weeks ago, in late June, that a jury sided with a class of DirecTV subscribers that the NFL violated antitrust laws by offering Sunday afternoon games via the premium subscription service.
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