Booth Review: Federal Judge Tosses $4.7B Verdict Against NFL

A federal judge overturned a jury's $4.7 billion verdict in the class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers against the NFL and has granted judgment to the NFL.

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U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez ruled Thursday that the testimony of two witnesses for the subscribers had flawed methodologies and should have been excluded.

“Without the testimonies of Dr. (Daniel) Rascher and Dr. (John) Zona, no reasonable jury could have found class-wide injury or damages,” Gutierrez wrote at the end of his 16-page ruling.

Ed Morrissey

Wanna bet the league office -- er, the Ninth Circuit -- sends this back for another trial? That's what happened when the same lawsuit got dismissed in 2017. It'll likely take a couple of years to go through the process again and re-start the litigation, but this won't go away as long as potential judgments are in the billions of dollars no matter what formula juries choose to use. 

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