A federal judge in Trenton has dismissed a New York Jets fan’s putative class-action suit over the New England Patriots’ secret videotaping of rival coaches’ signals, holding that tickets carry no guarantee that teams will abide by National Football League rules.
“Plaintiff’s subjective expectations regarding how the game would be played and what decisions the respective coaches would make, right or wrong, even if these actions constituted ‘cheating,’ was not anything that he either received license to or contracted for,” Chief Judge Garrett Brown Jr. held on Monday in Mayer v. Belichick , 3:07-cv-04671.
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