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NFL says verdict in 'Sunday Ticket' case was based on impermissible guesswork, speculation

( June 10, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The National Football League asked the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to affirm an order that overturned a jury verdict in favor Sunday Ticket subscribers. “[T]he jury's verdict was plainly based on impermissible ‘guesswork or speculation,’ and plaintiffs cannot cure that fatal defect by supplying additional speculation of their own especially when that speculation is equally divorced from the record evidence. The district court did not remotely abuse its discretion in concluding that the evidence cannot sustain treating $294 (a list price) as the actual price and $102.74 (an average actual price) as the but-for price, and that it makes no sense to assess injury to commercial subscribers using data that is germane only to residential subscribers,” it argued. See attached file. ...

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