In re NFL Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation
NFL Sunday Ticket
No change since Mar 9, 2026
Stakes
The clubs pooled their out-of-market broadcast rights and sold them as one product. Whether 32 separately owned teams can do that without it being coordination is the exact question American Needle left open for everything outside the Sports Broadcasting Act's carve-out.
Details
- Plaintiffs
- Residential and commercial subscriber classes
- Defendants
- NFL, NFL Enterprises, DirecTV
- Venue
- C.D. Cal. (9th Cir. Nos. 24-5493, 24-5691, consolidated)
- Docket number
- 2:15-ml-02668
- Posture
- Judgment entered below August 20, 2024. Consolidated appeals argued and submitted to Judges Thomas, Johnstone, and Lefkow on March 9, 2026. A decision may issue at any time.
- Judge
- George H. Wu (C.D. Cal.)
Key dates
- TBD (not yet scheduled) Ninth Circuit decision — submitted March 9, 2026, no date set
Timeline
- Mar 9, 2026
Argued and submitted to Judges Thomas, Johnstone, and Lefkow (9th Cir. entry 215).
Source → - Mar 3, 2026
Motion for leave to file amicus brief granted; motion to strike or file sur-reply denied (entry 213).
Source → - Dec 28, 2025
Notice of oral argument set for March 9, 2026 in San Francisco (entry 206).
Source → - Aug 20, 2024
Judgment entered in the district court.
Source → - Jun 1, 2015
Consolidated as MDL 2668.
Source →
Sources
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