LOS ANGELES (AP) — The damages a federal jury has ordered the NFL to pay for violating antitrust legal guidelines in distributing out-of-market Sunday afternoon video games on a premium subscription service is $4,707,259,944.64.
The figures from the June 27 judgement towards the NFL had been listed on the decision kind, which was posted on the case docket Tuesday.
The lawsuit coated 2.4 million residential subscribers and 48,000 companies in the USA who paid for the package deal on DirecTV of out-of-market video games from the 2011 by way of 2022 seasons. The lawsuit claimed the league broke antitrust legal guidelines by promoting the package deal at an inflated worth. The subscribers additionally say the league restricted competitors by providing “Sunday Ticket” solely on a satellite tv for pc supplier.
The jury of 5 males and three ladies discovered the NFL responsible for $4,610,331,671.74 in damages to the residential class (residence subscribers) and $96,928,272.90 in damages to the business class (enterprise subscribers).
Since damages may be tripled underneath federal antitrust legal guidelines, the NFL may find yourself being responsible for $14,121,779,833.92.
Damages can be unfold equally among the many 32 groups, that means every group may owe $441.3 million.
Throughout deliberations, the jury requested knowledge on the variety of subscribers annually of the category motion in addition to the price of every sort of “Sunday Ticket” subscription.
The jury additionally requested for the stories that 4 economists who testified on behalf of the plaintiffs and the NFL produced, however these weren’t admitted as proof.
Decide Philip S. Gutierrez is scheduled to listen to post-trial motions on July 31, together with the NFL’s request to have him rule in favor of the league by figuring out the plaintiffs didn’t show their case.
The NFL has stated it might enchantment the decision. That enchantment would go to the ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals after which probably the Supreme Court docket.
Cost of damages, any adjustments to the “Sunday Ticket” package deal and/or the methods the NFL carries its Sunday afternoon video games can be stayed till all appeals have been concluded.
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