The Supreme Court will decide as early as this week whether to hear a petition by the NFL and DirecTV that contests a ruling made by the Ninth District Court of Appeals in August that opened the door to democratize the league's Sunday Ticket package, according to ESPN.
Subscribers of Sunday Ticket sued, citing antitrust law, but had their class-action lawsuit over the NFL and DirecTV's content distribution practices initially shot down by a lower court's decision. The Court of Appeals' decision in August overruled that decision, ruling that Sunday Ticket's business model was, in fact, monopolistic in nature.