NFL Sunday Ticket Subscribers Defend Jury Award of $4.7 Billion

National Football League subscribers who won a $4.7 billion lawsuit defended a federal juror’s calculations in court documents, saying they were within the range supported by the evidence.

The verdict was far less than the $7 billion that the subscribers had sought, their lawyers said in a Wednesday filing, adding that modern antitrust cases can only cover damages of that size “given the scale of the commerce at stake.” They asked Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to leave the verdict in place and deny the league’s alternative motion for a new trial.

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