Subscribers of Sunday Ticket, the sports package that broadcasts National Football League regular season games unavailable to fans on local affiliates, filed a lawsuit against Google, which has a multibillion-dollar deal with the NFL allowing it to exclusively hold the broadcast rights for Sunday Ticket games shown on YouTube starting with the upcoming season.

In the 2019 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversing the district court’s dismissal of the original lawsuit for failure to state a claim of an antitrust action, the case was explained.