March 01, 2022
The National Football League and its member clubs are contesting in California federal court a bid by bar and restaurant owners for a three-month discovery extension in their long-running antitrust litigation accusing the league and DirecTV of monopolizing Sunday football broadcasts.
April 21, 2021
A California federal judge has ordered a proposed class of bar and restaurant owners to arbitrate their claims accusing DirecTV of monopolizing Sunday NFL football broadcasts, shooting down their argument that the pay-TV provider's prolonged litigation in federal court meant they weren't eligible for arbitration.
March 08, 2021
Bar and restaurant owners pushed back against DirecTV's bid to force them to arbitrate claims the company monopolized Sunday football broadcasts through an exclusive package deal with the NFL, arguing the pay TV provider was fine with litigating the claims in court so long as the court sided with it.
February 16, 2021
DirecTV renewed an effort in California federal court to push into arbitration claims it monopolized Sunday game broadcasts through an exclusive package deal with the National Football League.
June 30, 2017
A California federal judge on Friday dismissed multidistrict antitrust litigation against the National Football League and DirecTV over their Sunday Ticket viewing package, ruling that the subscribers haven't proven an antitrust injury.
February 13, 2017
The NFL and DirecTV separately urged a California federal judge on Monday to kick subscribers' antitrust suit challenging the legality of their exclusive Sunday Ticket package out of court, with DirecTV seeking arbitration and the NFL arguing the suit is based on a "fundamentally cockeyed notion."
December 15, 2016
Broadcasters Fox and CBS have agreed to hand over redacted documents in California federal court related to their lucrative television rights deals with the National Football League to plaintiffs alleging the NFL's exclusive Sunday Ticket package with DirecTV to show out-of-market games violates federal antitrust law.
October 25, 2016
The National Football League on Monday continued its bid to escape a multidistrict litigation alleging its exclusive Sunday Ticket package with DirecTV violates federal antitrust law, telling a California federal judge that the commercial subscribers bringing the suit failed to show an antitrust violation.
October 04, 2016
Commercial subscribers in multidistrict litigation alleging the National Football League's exclusive Sunday Ticket package with DirecTV violates federal antitrust law urged a California federal judge on Monday to deny a bid to compel arbitration in the suit, arguing no agreement to arbitrate exists.
September 23, 2016
DirecTV subscribers blasted the National Football League on Thursday for trying to evade multidistrict litigation alleging the NFL's exclusive Sunday Ticket package with the broadcaster violates federal antitrust law, arguing there's nothing "pro-competitive" about the arrangement.