A federal judge has made a significant ruling in the class-action lawsuit brought by 'Sunday Ticket' subscribers against the NFL, overturning the jury's $4.7 billion verdict and granting judgment to the NFL. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez determined that the testimonies of two key witnesses for the subscribers were flawed and should have been excluded from the case.
The lawsuit, which involved 2.4 million residential subscribers and 48,000 businesses in the United States who paid for the out-of-market games package on DirecTV from 2011 through 2022, alleged that the NFL violated antitrust laws in distributing Sunday afternoon games on a premium subscription service.
