A federal appeals court ruled Thursday the city of Oakland failed to demonstrate that the 2017 departure of the National Football League’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas violated antitrust laws.

In a 43-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the city of Oakland’s antitrust suit against the Raiders and the professional football franchise. The court’s majority rejected Oakland’s claims that the NFL teams participated in an unlawful group boycott and a horizontal price-fixing scheme.

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