The sports bars leading an antitrust challenge to the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” DirecTV package slammed the league’s bid for U.S. Supreme Court review, saying the case involves settled legal rules that a lower appeals court applied straightforwardly when it revived the case.
“Petitioners invent circuit conflicts where none exist, overlook the Ninth Circuit’s measured holding based on decades of this court’s own cases, and seek review before there is any record on the myriad factual issues,” the DirecTV subscribers say in a brief filed Tuesday.
The justices signaled their interest in the dispute in April, inviting a response from the ...
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