A federal judge has overturned a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the NFL over the price of NFL Sunday Tickets season tickets, finding that experts brought forward by the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit used flawed economic models.

U.S. District Court Judge Philip S. Gutierrez granted the league's request for judgment as a matter of law, ruling that, absent the reliable expert witnesses, it was "impossible for a jury to determine on a class-wide basis that Sunday Ticket subscribers would indeed have paid less in the absence of Defendants' anticompetitive conduct." Read the NFL Sunday Ticket ruling here.

The judge added that “plaintiffs failed to present evidence that would allow a reasonable jury to make a finding of injury and an award of actual damages that would not be erroneous as a matter of law, wholly without merit, and/or purely speculative.”

Gutierrez also overturned the hefty damages awards, concluding that they “were not based on 'evidence and reasonable inferences,' but rather resembled 'conjecture or speculation.'”