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Blasting the NFL for trying to “reverse-engineer” how a Los Angeles jury calculated the NFL must pay $4.7 billion in damages for Sunday Ticket antitrust violations, attorneys for the class action plaintiffs Wednesday urged the presiding judge to not “play Monday morning quarterback,” and instead deny the league’s motion for a judgment as a matter of law or new trial.
As Sportico detailed, the NFL maintains the jury in the federal Central District of California court reached a “nonsensical” and “irrational” decision to find liability and to award billions of dollars in damages in a class action representing more than 2.4 million residential subscribers and more than 48,000 restaurants, bars and other commercial establishments that purchased Sunday Ticket from 2011 to 2023.
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The NFL rejects the central thesis of the case—without the Sunday Ticket, more games would be distributed similarly to college football, meaning “through a combination of free TV and basic cable channels with no additional subscription charge required”—as factually untrue and legally specious. The league contends jurors badly fumbled the math, including by allegedly misunderstanding economic and definitional differences that distinguish an overcharge from a discount. As the NFL sees it, the jury invented a flawed methodology that neither the plaintiffs’ attorneys nor economists suggested.
In a 36-page brief authored by Marc Seltzer and other attorneys, the plaintiffs maintain the jury’s decision should be honored. Emphasizing that no “do-over” is warranted, the brief underscores how the jury heard from 27 witnesses over a three-week trial that contained 82 admitted exhibits.
The plaintiffs maintain that while $4.7 billion is a large figure, it is much less than what the plaintiffs demanded—$7 billion. Along those lines, the jury awarding $4.6 billion and $97 million to the residential subscribers and commercial establishments,…
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Author : Sportico
Publish date : 2024-07-19 12:00:00
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