The ruling by Los Angeles-based U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez followed arguments by the NFL that the verdict was unjustified and the result of a
FILE PHOTO: The NFL logo is pictured at an event in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File PhotoA U.S. judge in California on Thursday threw out a $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League in a lawsuit claiming it overcharged subscribers to its Sunday Ticket game telecasts for more than a decade.
Gutierrez in his 16-page order threw out the testimony from two key witnesses for the subscribers. He said the jury’s damages verdict was otherwise unsupported by the evidence and ruled that were too many defects in the case for it to proceed at all. A Los Angeles federal jury said in its June 27 verdict that the NFL had restricted the availability of “Sunday Ticket,” allowing DirecTV to charge artificially higher prices as its former sole distributor. DirecTV was not on trial.
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