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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Jul. 5, 2017

NFL, DirecTV score win over class action

The National Football League and DirecTV scored a major victory on Friday after a federal judge dismissed a class action that claimed their television programming agreement was anti-competitive and inflated the price of viewing out-of-market games.

NFL, DirecTV score win over class action
O’CONNELL (left)

LOS ANGELES — The National Football League and DirecTV scored a major victory after a U.S. judge dismissed a class action that claimed their television programming agreement was anti-competitive and inflated the price of viewing out-of-market games.

U.S. District Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell dismissed with prejudice a multidistrict litigation that was originally brought as 27 related actions by various bars and taverns that paid th...

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