June 23, 2025
Subscribers to the Fubo streaming service asked a California federal judge to name them and their attorney the leads in the recent proposed settlement with Disney over the carriage fees for its sports streaming service, and to be "wary" of a motion to appoint the attorney for the two other classes of streaming customers as lead counsel.
June 11, 2025
Days after announcing that they've reached a settlement with Disney, live TV streaming customers are looking to appoint Yavar Bathaee from Bathaee Dunne LLP to serve as the lead counsel in their proposed antitrust class action against the company over ESPN carriage agreement fees.
June 09, 2025
Disney has settled a sprawling antitrust lawsuit with consumers over the fees in its ESPN livestreaming carriage agreements.
June 28, 2024
In this week's Off The Bench, a jury delivers the NFL a $4.7 billion punch to the gut, an NBA agent looks to get paid for work that was credited to Rich Paul, and the Arizona Cardinals try to get a former executive's defamation claims sent to arbitration.
June 25, 2024
A California federal judge on Tuesday threw out some antitrust claims in a sprawling proposed class action over Disney's ESPN livestreaming carriage agreements, although he permitted other portions of the suit to proceed, finding that consumers have adequately alleged Disney's actions could have hobbled competition.
January 09, 2024
Consumers are fighting to preserve a proposed antitrust class action targeting Disney live-streaming carriage agreements that forbid streaming services from excluding ESPN from cheap bundle packages, assailing the entertainment giant for "relitigating" issues the California federal judge already said could move forward.
December 04, 2023
Disney urged a California federal judge to nix a proposed antitrust class action targeting live-streaming carriage agreements forbidding ESPN's exclusion from cheap bundling packages, arguing that tweaks to the subscribers' suit can't save previously nixed damages claims and that the judge should've tossed the entirety of the suit.
October 02, 2023
A federal judge in California on Friday allowed parts of a putative class action claiming that Disney's ESPN carriage agreements violate the Sherman Act to proceed, but tossed the plaintiffs' claims for damages, giving them until Oct. 16 to amend and refile.
April 10, 2023
YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers have urged a California federal court in two separate but similar suits to ignore Disney's bids to dismiss claims that the company drove their bills up by forcing expensive ESPN channels onto their services, arguing that by directly owning its own streaming platform, Disney's deals with YouTube TV and DirecTV were illegal horizontal agreements.
January 31, 2023
The Walt Disney Co. fired back at separate proposed antitrust class actions from YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers who claim Disney drove their bills up by forcing ESPN channels onto their services, arguing Tuesday that it is a supplier of channels, not a competitor.