Sathya S. Gosselin

EXPERIENCE

Antitrust/Competition

Recent engagements include:

• In re NFL’s Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation – Sathya served as trial counsel on behalf of residential and commercial subscriber plaintiffs alleging that the National Football League (“NFL”) and its teams violated the antitrust laws through media-rights agreements that suppressed the output of, and raised the price for, out-of-market game telecasts. At the conclusion of a four-week trial, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs and awarded $4.7 billion in damages (subject to a subsequent ruling on a motion for judgment as a matter of law and now on appeal).
• O’Bannon v. NCAA – Serving as trial counsel in the landmark litigation, in which Sathya examined and cross-examined witnesses at trial, deposed key NCAA executives, briefed complex constitutional issues advanced by the NCAA and television networks, and helped negotiate a $40 million settlement with Electronic Arts, Inc., which was distributed among current and former college athletes.
• In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation  – Serving as counsel to dozens of rail-freight shippers in a high-profile antitrust case concerning alleged fuel-surcharge collusion among the nation’s largest rail-freight carriers.
• Representing specialty-film exhibitors in antitrust litigation concerning a dominant theater chain’s abuse of its nationwide ‘circuit’ power to coerce film distributors into undesirable exclusivity arrangements that harm competition.
• Representing health plans–alongside 47 state attorneys general–that allege that the nation’s largest generic drug manufacturers fixed prices and allocated markets on dozens of generic drugs, injuring patients and their insurers through dramatically higher prices.

Human Rights

• Submitting an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of international human-rights scholars urging the Court to grant review as to whether customary international law excuses exhaustion of local remedies where a state accused of wrongdoing unduly delays the local remedial process.

Intellectual Property

• Representing a leading software manufacturer in copyright-infringement litigation against the federal government.
• Defending an apparel retailer against false intellectual-property infringement claims.

Sports & Entertainment

• Representing a corporate sponsor of track & field athletes in first-of-its-kind antitrust litigation against the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Track & Field concerning unduly restrictive limitations on athlete sponsorships.
• Negotiating a favorable settlement for a royalty-rights holder in the college athletics space.
• Obtaining a complete judgment for an internationally acclaimed DJ in commercial litigation.

Environmental & Product Liability

• Submitting an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit on behalf of the National League of Cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the International Municipal Lawyers Association, in support of the District of Columbia and asserting that there is no federal common-law basis to extinguish state-court jurisdiction for state-law claims concerning injuries arising from climate-change consequences.