A federal judge has knocked out an antitrust lawsuit brought by the city of Oakland against the Raiders and the National Football League over the club’s move to Las Vegas, finding that the city hadn’t sufficiently alleged that it suffered an antitrust injury.

U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero of the Northern District of California on Thursday held that the city hadn’t plausibly alleged that it would have retained the Raiders or attracted another team to the city without the league’s 32-team cap on franchises. Spero found that the city hadn’t addressed questions of how the league actually should be structured and whether the city could have retained the Raiders or attracted another team to the market without the restrictions.

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