When the NFL withheld nearly all available Super Bowl XLVIII tickets from the general public, Josh Finkelman was forced to pay $4,000 to resellers for two seats at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, his lawyer argued in federal court Thursday.
Bruce Nagel, who presented Finkelman’s case in Philadelphia before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, told the three-judge panel that the National Football League—which allows some tickets to be sold to the general public through a lottery while the majority are distributed among its 32 teams, medial outlets and sponsors—limited Super Bowl tickets available to the public to only 1 percent of the nearly 80,000 total. The case went up to the appeals court after U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan of the District of New Jersey declined to grant Finkelman’s case class action status.
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