June 28, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, a jury delivers the NFL a $4.7 billion punch to the gut, an NBA agent looks to get paid for work that was credited to Rich Paul, and the Arizona Cardinals try to get a former executive's defamation claims sent to arbitration.
June 25, 2024
A California federal judge on Tuesday threw out some antitrust claims in a sprawling proposed class action over Disney's ESPN livestreaming carriage agreements, although he permitted other portions of the suit to proceed, finding that consumers have adequately alleged Disney's actions could have hobbled competition.
January 09, 2024
Consumers are fighting to preserve a proposed antitrust class action targeting Disney live-streaming carriage agreements that forbid streaming services from excluding ESPN from cheap bundle packages, assailing the entertainment giant for "relitigating" issues the California federal judge already said could move forward.
December 04, 2023
Disney urged a California federal judge to nix a proposed antitrust class action targeting live-streaming carriage agreements forbidding ESPN's exclusion from cheap bundling packages, arguing that tweaks to the subscribers' suit can't save previously nixed damages claims and that the judge should've tossed the entirety of the suit.
October 02, 2023
A federal judge in California on Friday allowed parts of a putative class action claiming that Disney's ESPN carriage agreements violate the Sherman Act to proceed, but tossed the plaintiffs' claims for damages, giving them until Oct. 16 to amend and refile.
April 10, 2023
YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers have urged a California federal court in two separate but similar suits to ignore Disney's bids to dismiss claims that the company drove their bills up by forcing expensive ESPN channels onto their services, arguing that by directly owning its own streaming platform, Disney's deals with YouTube TV and DirecTV were illegal horizontal agreements.
January 31, 2023
The Walt Disney Co. fired back at separate proposed antitrust class actions from YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers who claim Disney drove their bills up by forcing ESPN channels onto their services, arguing Tuesday that it is a supplier of channels, not a competitor.
November 21, 2022
YouTube TV subscribers have hit The Walt Disney Co. with a proposed antitrust class action in California federal court, alleging Disney drove up the cost of streaming live pay television by forcing its pricey ESPN sports channel onto YouTube TV and other platforms.