Professor Maureen Weston Quoted in "Judge Will Answer NFL’s $14 Billion Sunday Ticket Question" -- Bloomberg Law

Professor Maureen A. Weston is quoted in the Bloomberg Law article, "Judge Will Answer NFL’s $14 Billion Sunday Ticket Question." The article considers the National Football League request that a judge to set aside a $4.7 billion verdict in which a jury sided with football fans who claimed the league conspired with DirecTV to raise the price of Sunday Ticket subscriptions to watch out-of-market games. The damages awarded by the jury stand to be tripled to $14 billion under federal antitrust law.

Excerpt from "Judge Will Answer NFL’s $14 Billion Sunday Ticket Question"

“It seems the case is far from over,” said Maureen Weston, a sports law professor at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has already issued subscriber-friendly rulings, but Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh indicated he was skeptical that the Sunday Ticket subscribers have standing when the US Supreme Court declined to take up the case in 2020 at the motion-to-dismiss stage.

The complete article may be found at Bloomberg Law