U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez ruled in favor of the NFL in the anti-trust lawsuit.
FILE - The NFL logo is displayed on the field at the Bank of American Stadium, Nov. 4, 2018, in Charlotte, N.C. The judge who presided in the class-action lawsuit filed by “Sunday Ticket” subscribers against the NFL said the jury did not follow his instructions in determining damages.U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez ruled Thursday that the testimony of two witnesses for the subscribers had flawed methodologies and should have been excluded.“Without the testimonies of Dr. Rascher and Dr.
Rascher’s models were variations of a college football model. Rascher, an economist at the University of San Francisco, said during his testimony that “they figured it out in college sports, they would certainly figure it out at the NFL.”and that he needed to explain how out-of-market telecasts would have been available on cable and satellite without an additional subscription.
The jury’s amount also did not conform to Rascher’s model by Daniel Rascher, or the model by Zona, who was an expert witness in the case.
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