Key facts
- A jury initially awarded $4.7 billion in damages.
- The case covers Sunday Ticket subscribers between 2011 and 2023.
- The NFL allegedly restricted competition by bundling games exclusively through DirecTV, leading to artificially high prices.
A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a jury's verdict against the National Football League in an antitrust lawsuit claiming the league overcharged subscribers to its Sunday Ticket game telecasts for more than a decade. The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court judge in California who had thrown out a $4.7 billion verdict against the NFL after the trial in 2024. The league can have a new trial on damages, the court said.