ESPN Moves To Join Lawsuit Against WWE Over Premium Live Event Access Claims

TLDR

ESPN filed a memorandum asking the court to allow the network to intervene in a class-action lawsuit against WWE over premium live event access claims, seeking to move the case into arbitration under Disney's subscriber agreement. The original lawsuit, filed in January by two consumers, claimed WWE used deceptive marketing by advertising that ESPN subscribers would get access to premium live events without paying extra, though ESPN was not initially named as a defendant. The lawsuit seeks to represent ESPN subscribers from August 6 to before WWE's Wrestlepalooza event on September 20, excluding customers from certain providers like Hulu + Live TV and Spectrum that already offered the service at no extra cost.