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The motion goes on to state that two of those lenders — Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation (holding a $23 million judgment) and Hyundai Capital America (holding a $4.5 million judgment) — recently attempted to garnish Antonio’s wages with the Raiders.

In the bankruptcy filing, Jocelyn, who has been married to Antonio since 2008, stated her husband was convinced to become a “passive investor” in the car dealerships in the 2010s. According to the filing, personal guarantees were later produced that included his name. After several of the businesses he invested in defaulted on their loans, the lenders obtained judgments against their guarantors, which included Antonio.

In 2020, Antonio was listed as a defendant in a class-action lawsuit in Pennsylvania that claimed he, other players and multiple dealerships touted a “Set for Life Program” in 2018 despite becoming aware the businesses would not survive. It’s still listed as an open case.

On April 15, Hyundai motioned to dismiss an arbitration with the plaintiff, while Nissan stated that it had an arbitrator appointed.

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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott files lawsuit alleging woman is attempting to extort $100 million
By Wayne Sterling, CNN


https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/spor...awsuit-alleging-extortion-spt-intl/index.html

Published 6:13 PM EDT, Tue March 12, 2024



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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott filed a lawsuit Monday in a Texas district court, alleging a woman is trying to extort $100 million from him.

In the 11-page lawsuit filed in Collin County, Prescott’s attorney claims lawyers for Victoria Shores sent an email in January to a third party at the college Prescott attended, Mississippi State University, addressed to the football player. It stated Shores would not press any criminal charges against Prescott regarding an alleged February 2017 sexual assault in exchange for compensation.

In the demand letter, Shores’ attorneys -– Bethel and Yoel Zehaie –- said she “has had to live with this pain and trauma for seven years. It affected her relationship with her fiancé and her everyday existence so much that she had to attend therapy and counseling and will require future therapy and counseling. She has suffered mental anguish that is unimaginable dealing with the trauma” of being a sexual assault victim.

According to the letter, Prescott and Shores knew each other through “her employment” the alleged incident took place in the parking lot at XTC Cabaret, a Dallas strip club. On February 2, 2017, he “invited her to hang out” in Plano, Texas, with other people until at one point they were alone in an SUV, when the alleged sexual assault happened.

The attorneys added: “Despite the tragic events, she is willing to (forgo) pursuing criminal charges, along with disclosing this information to the public, in exchange for compensating her for the mental anguish she has suffered. Ms. Shores’s damages are valued at the sum of $100,000,000.00,” an excerpt of the letter reads.

One of Prescott’s attorneys, Levi McCathern, said his client has never engaged in nonconsensual sexual conduct with anyone.

“Lies hurt. Especially, malicious lies,” he said in a statement. “We will not allow the Defendant and her legal team to profit from this attempt to extort millions from Mr. Prescott.”

Shores “vehemently” stands by her claim, Yoel Zehaie said Tuesday in a statement.

“His team is trying to label this as extortion to change the narrative. We sent a demand letter, which is standard in the legal practice and in sexual assault cases,” the attorney told CNN.

Prescott is also alleging defamation and slander, defamation per se, business disparagement, tortious interference with current and/or prospective business relations, civil conspiracy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

The filing said that Prescott would donate “any and all” money recovered from the lawsuit to a sexual assault and domestic violence advocacy group.

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In 2015, a small sports bar in San Francisco, California, filed a lawsuit against the National Football League (NFL). The bar, called Mucky Duck, alleged that the NFL broke antitrust laws by selling its package of Sunday games at an inflated price and that competition was restricted by only offering the package on a satellite provider.

This wasn’t necessarily a surprise. Commercial buyers of the NFL’s Sunday Ticket package (think: bars and restaurants) have to pay between $6,000 and $78,000 annually for the service, depending on the size of the venue. And bar owners have long talked about how the package of games makes it difficult for small businesses to turn a profit.

Still, this felt like the longest shot of all long shots. For context, the NFL’s 32 franchises are collectively worth over $165 billion, while Mucky Duck is a small neighborhood sports bar that sells $6 drinks and only offers a bag of $1 chips for food.

The truth is that no one expected this case to go anywhere. The NFL kicked the can down the road, delaying and postponing it several times. The case was dismissed by a California judge in 2017, only to be reinstated by the Ninth Circuit two years later. The judge then ruled that it could proceed as a class action lawsuit. And now, nearly ten years after the lawsuit was initially filed, a verdict was handed down yesterday.

The federal jury of five men and three women found the NFL liable and ordered it to pay $4.7 billion in damages. Most of that money ($4.6 billion) will go to residential Sunday Ticket subscribers (i.e., households), while the remaining $100 million will go to commercial users, like Mucky Duck and other restaurant owners.

That’s obviously a lot of money, and the NFL has already said they will appeal. But the craziest part is that U.S. antitrust laws permit plaintiffs to recover three times the damages, meaning the NFL will actually be required to pay more than $14 billion.

Here’s how the math shakes out: The lawsuit covers roughly 2.4 million residential Sunday Ticket subscribers and 48,000 businesses who paid for the package. Lawyers will take their cut, which typically comes out somewhere between 25% and 35% for class action lawsuits (because they often don’t get paid unless they win the case).
 
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