NFL, DirecTV Face Sunday Ticket Class Suit

July 15, 2015, 8:56 PM UTC

The NFL Sunday Ticket, offered by the National Football League Inc. and DirecTV LLC, is under fire by a putative class of bars and restaurants that claim an exclusive distribution agreement between the two offends the Sherman Act (Ninth Inning Inc. v. Nat’l Football League Inc., C.D. Cal., 15-5261, complaint filed 7/13/15).

Ninth Inning Inc, doing business as The Mucky Duck, sued in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging the Sunday Ticket, which is an out-of-market sports package that carries all televised professional football games, allows the defendants to restrict the output ...

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