NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man's lawsuit has offered a plausible legal argument that the National Football League's ticket policies for the 2014 Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium may have violated state consumer protection laws, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in reversing a lower court and allowing the case to move forward.
The ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed a preliminary victory to a New Brunswick man who sued in 2014 after he claimed he spent $2,000 per ticket on the secondary market instead of the $800 face value because the NFL released only 1 percent of the tickets to the public through a lottery.