U.S. district court judge David Doty in Minneapolis ruled Tuesday that a special master erred in saying the National Football League could pocket $4 billion in television revenue should team owners shut down America’s most popular sport once the league’s collective bargaining agreement expires on Thursday, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Associated Press.
As with the rest of the simmering NFL labor war, Am Law 200 firms are representing both the NFL and the NFL Players Association in the “lockout funds” dispute, which The Am Law Daily first reported on last June and once again in January.
