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Jury Hits NFL With $4.7 Billion In Damages In ‘Sunday Ticket’ Legal Fight
A Los Angeles jury ruled Thursday that the NFL violated antitrust laws by offering Sunday afternoon games via a premium subscription services, and awarded plaintiffs hefty damages of about $4.7 billion in the years-old class action suit. The NFL said it plans to appeal. The class action suit first filed in 2015 covers 2.4 million […]
Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images A Los Angeles jury ruled Thursday that the NFL violated antitrust laws by offering Sunday afternoon games via a premium subscription services, and awarded plaintiffs hefty damages of about $4.7 billion in the years-old class action suit. The class action suit first filed in 2015 covers 2.4 million residential subscribers and 48,000 businesses like bars and restaurants who paid for out of market games from the 2011 to 2022 football seasons on DirecTV. (Under the terms of media rights deals with networks, local stations carry games in teams’ home markets on over-the-air broadcast television.)
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