Super Bowl XLV ticket holders affected by the temporary-seating debacle at Cowboys Stadium in 2011 notified a federal court last week of plans to proceed with a class-action lawsuit against the Dallas Cowboys, owner Jerry Jones and the National Football League after mediation failed, Susan Schrok of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. Attorneys for the ticket holders also filed a motion with the court Tuesday seeking a status conference to begin the case and seeking attorney fees from the NFL and other costs associated with the months-long attempt to reach a settlement outside court. Ticket holders in the lawsuit were denied their seats, delayed from getting to them or assigned seats with obstructed views, the lawsuit says that the NFL breached its contract with ticket holders and that the settlement offers made by the league after the game failed to fully compensate them. The plaintiffs seek more than $5 million, not counting costs and interest, according to court documents. Based on discussions with the NFL this year, the ticket holders' lawyers say they believed at first that the league was "truly interested in resolving the case and engaging in good faith negotiations," according to documents filed last week, the attorneys said, however, that they later came to believe that the league delayed discovery and taking depositions for months so as to settle out of court. "The defendants purposefully delayed these proceedings for months in bad faith while falsely claiming to be truly interested in resolving the case," the latest motion says. Source: The Redzone
