In Re National Football Leagues Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation

On June 27, 2024, the Los Angeles jury found the NFL liable for $4,610,331,671.74 in damages to the residential class (home subscribers) and $96,928,272.90 in damages to the commercial class (business subscribers) in the present antitrust lawsuit.

Case Background

The present class action was initiated on December 10, 2015, to fight the antitrust practice and monopoly of the NFL over football telecasts in the United States. Hon. Philip S. Gutierrez presided over this case. [Case number: 2:15ml2668]

Cause

Plaintiffs Ninth Inning Inc. operating as The Mucky Duck, 1465 Third Avenue Restaurant Corp. doing business as Gael Pub, along with Robert Gary Lippincott, Jr., and Jonathan Frantz, through their legal representatives, asserted that the 32 professional football teams of the National Foot