March 05, 2014
Dish Network LLC and ESPN Inc. on Tuesday dropped their individual bids for nearly $5 million in attorneys' fees stemming from a jury verdict in New York federal court finding that the sports network breached a licensing agreement by offering Dish competitors better rates for its programming.
May 02, 2013
Dish Network LLC on Wednesday asked a New York judge to make ESPN Inc. cover $4.82 million in attorneys' fees after a jury awarded the satellite provider nearly the same amount at trial, finding the sports network breached a licensing agreement by offering Dish competitors a better deal to carry its Spanish language channel.
March 25, 2013
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP attorneys obtained a favorable verdict for ESPN Inc., on trial for allegedly giving Dish Network LLC's competitors better rates on its sports programming, by offering to the jury a simplified alternative narrative that Dish had cherry-picked provisions in the deal to unfairly squeeze its client.
February 28, 2013
A federal jury on Thursday found that sports broadcasting company ESPN Inc. violated a contract with Dish Network LLC by offering the television provider worse rates on its programming than it offered other providers, and awarded Dish $4.86 million.
February 11, 2013
ESPN Inc. gave Dish Network LLC less favorable rates on its programming than it gave the television provider's competitors despite a contract requiring equal treatment, a lawyer for Dish said Monday, opening a $152 million trial against the sports media giant.