NFL to Face New Trial Over ‘Sunday Ticket’ $4.7 Billion Verdict
NFL to Face New Trial Over ‘Sunday Ticket’ $4.7 Billion Verdict
admin 5 days agoA federal appeals court has revived a verdict that the National Football League overcharged Sunday Ticket subscribers and ordered a new trial on damages.
A federal appeals court has revived a verdict that the National Football League overcharged Sunday Ticket subscribers and ordered a new trial on damages.
The decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reverses a federal judge who had tossed a $4.7 billion award for consumers. A jury’s “verdict must stand unless it is clearly not supported by the evidence,” the court wrote.
After a jury sided with consumers in a 2024 trial, the court granted the NFL’s bid to throw out the verdict. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez found that some of the testimony from experts who testified should’ve been excluded.
In Friday’s decision, the federal appeals court concluded that Gutierrez overstepped in her role as a gatekeeper of expert testimony.
“Opinions are neither unfounded nor unreliable merely because they are impeachable,” the three-judge panel wrote. “Such opinions are for the jury to weigh at trial.”...
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A federal appeals court has revived a verdict that the National Football League overcharged Sunday Ticket subscribers and ordered a new trial on damages.
The decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reverses a federal judge who had tossed a $4.7 billion award for consumers. A jury’s “verdict must stand unless it is clearly not supported by the evidence,” the court wrote.
After a jury sided with consumers in a 2024 trial, the court granted the NFL’s bid to throw out the verdict. U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez found that some of the testimony from experts who testified should’ve been excluded.
In Friday’s decision, the federal appeals court concluded that Gutierrez overstepped in her role as a gatekeeper of expert testimony.
“Opinions are neither unfounded nor unreliable merely because they are impeachable,” the three-judge panel wrote. “Such opinions are for the jury to weigh at trial.”...
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