You have to have standing to sue, and you have to show an injury. Aside from their disappointment what is their economic harm that they want the Court to redress?
They paid to see the playoff game, and it was a great game, albeit turned against them through a ridiculously bad no-call. They won’t be paying for Super Bowl tickets. They have no economic loss.
Harm need not be economic to sue.
Their most certainly is an economic loss. To the players AND the team.
Here’s how much players on the winning and losing teams in Super Bowl LII will earn and how much money players on other playoff teams took home during the 2018 NFL playoffs: Players on the Super Bowl championship team will make $112,000. Players on the losing team will earn $56,000.Feb 2, 2018
Super Bowl 2018: How much money do winners, losers get paid ...
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“You have to have standing to sue, and you have to show an injury.”
“According to Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1 of the NFL rulebook, the league commissioner “has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game.” Remedies include reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game — in its entirety or from the point when the act occurred.”
They are suing to replay the game or part of it.
What is a 12(b)6 Motion in a court of law, both State Court(s) & Federal Court(s):
Answer: Failure to state a claim, upon which relief can be granted!
I am from the New Orleans area. This is a local attorney who advertises heavily in the New Orleans market. I’m thinking this is to get some free advertising and jumping on the fan outrage bandwagon. I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t see this going anywhere.
My BIL mentioned the other day that the season tickets for LA were now in the high 5 figures. Up from $1500 for the same 4 seats some 20 (?) years ago. A winning team and a Superbowl justifies the team raising prices and in turn makes season tickets more valuable to those holding them if the team allows fan-to-fan resell. So there is ‘economic harm’ if you look at it that way but I have no clue if permitted fan-to-fan resell is allowed by the Saints.