Apple has asked a U.S. judge to reject a subpoena that could require the company to reveal corporate secrets tied to its failed effort to carry the National Football League’s “NFL Sunday Ticket,” mad up of all out-of-market NFL games, now on Alphabet subsidiary Google’s YouTube TV.
In a filing in California federal court, Apple’s attorneys on Monday opposed a subpoena from residential and commercial Sunday Ticket subscribers who accused the NFL and its teams in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit of violating U.S. antitrust law in the distribution of Sunday Ticket.
Apple argued that the plaintiffs’ effort to subpoena information from the company, and to question senior executive Eddy Cue, was “unduly burdensome.”
Apple is not a party in the underlying case in Los Angeles federal court, which is set for a February trial. But the plaintiffs’ lawyers want information from Apple, Alphabet’s Google and others to help develop and hone their claims.
MacDailyNews Note: In the legal filing, Apple’s lawyers said the plaintiffs were seeking “irrelevant, disproportionate, and competitively sensitive” information in their subpoena and that requiring testimony from Cue, who reports to Apple CEO Tim Cook, would be improper.
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