February 13, 2017
The NFL and DirecTV separately urged a California federal judge on Monday to kick subscribers' antitrust suit challenging the legality of their exclusive Sunday Ticket package out of court, with DirecTV seeking arbitration and the NFL arguing the suit is based on a "fundamentally cockeyed notion."
December 15, 2016
Broadcasters Fox and CBS have agreed to hand over redacted documents in California federal court related to their lucrative television rights deals with the National Football League to plaintiffs alleging the NFL's exclusive Sunday Ticket package with DirecTV to show out-of-market games violates federal antitrust law.
October 25, 2016
The National Football League on Monday continued its bid to escape a multidistrict litigation alleging its exclusive Sunday Ticket package with DirecTV violates federal antitrust law, telling a California federal judge that the commercial subscribers bringing the suit failed to show an antitrust violation.
October 04, 2016
Commercial subscribers in multidistrict litigation alleging the National Football League's exclusive Sunday Ticket package with DirecTV violates federal antitrust law urged a California federal judge on Monday to deny a bid to compel arbitration in the suit, arguing no agreement to arbitrate exists.
September 23, 2016
DirecTV subscribers blasted the National Football League on Thursday for trying to evade multidistrict litigation alleging the NFL's exclusive Sunday Ticket package with the broadcaster violates federal antitrust law, arguing there's nothing "pro-competitive" about the arrangement.
August 18, 2016
Millions of NFL fans will be tuning in on Sundays this fall to watch their local teams, but only those with DirecTV will be able to watch every game every week under the league's exclusive deal with the satellite provider. That deal is under attack from disgruntled subscribers who say it inflates prices, and experts say the litigation could cause problems for the NFL's lucrative deal.
August 09, 2016
The National Football League and DirecTV separately sought Monday to quash subscribers' multidistrict litigation in California federal court alleging their exclusive Sunday Ticket package violates federal antitrust law, with the NFL arguing there's no such violation and DirecTV contending the spat belongs in arbitration.
May 23, 2016
Attorneys with four firms were appointed as co-lead counsel to the subscribers in a California multidistrict litigation alleging DirecTV's exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket package violates federal antitrust laws after a judge said Monday Girard Gibbs LLP's attorney lacks the experience for the role.
May 12, 2016
Hausfeld LLP and Robins Kaplan LLP urged a California federal court overseeing multidistrict litigation over DirecTV's exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket package to appoint them co-lead counsel for a group of bars and restaurants, arguing the case raises separate issues than in those against the NHL and Major League Baseball that were settled by other lead counsel contenders.
March 28, 2016
A California federal judge on Monday denied a bid by fans, who were swept into multidistrict litigation over DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket package, to get their case sent back to state court, finding that their claims turned on a federal question: Did DirecTV have a monopoly?