Standard Contracts
ContractAntitrust Complaint • August 8th, 2014
Hockey League (“NHL”) and various individual clubs in the league (the “NHL Defendants”); Major League Baseball (“MLB”) and various individual clubs in the league (the “MLB Defendants”) (together the “League Defendants”); multiple regional sports networks (“RSNs”) that produce and distribute professional baseball and hockey programming;1 two multichannel video programming distributors (“MVPDs” or “distributors”), Comcast and DIRECTV (together with the RSNs, the “Television Defendants” or “broadcasters”); Madison Square Garden Company and the New York Rangers Hockey Club (the “MSG Defendants”); and New York Yankees Partnership and Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network, LLC (“YES”) (together the “Yankee Defendants”). Plaintiffs allege violations under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act (the “Sherman Act”).
