The lackluster, to say the least, media protection of the Sunday Ticket trial towards the NFL has included one particular effort to downplay the last word legal responsibility, by omission.
The league’s loss has been extensively characterised as $4.696 billion. It’s not. It’s $14.088 billion.
The second the judgment is entered, the quantity will likely be tripled, given the longstanding and indeniable necessities of antitrust legislation. Thus, except the decide throws the case out (and he nonetheless might), $4.696 billion will change into $14.088 billion.
The NFL might nonetheless win on attraction. Regardless, the worst-case state of affairs isn’t practically $4.7 billion. It’s greater than $14 billion, together with pre-judgment curiosity, post-judgment curiosity, and attorneys’ charges overlaying a authorized odyssey that has lasted 9 years and counting.
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