The PGA Tour, LIV Golf and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia have settled their antitrust and counterclaim litigation, but the legal wrangling continues in the case.
On Thursday, attorneys for The New York Times and LIV Golf argued whether documents that had been sealed as part of the antitrust litigation should remain sealed.
“Can a [sealing] standard retroactively be changed?” asked U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman during the hearing that lasted nearly an hour.
In June, the antitrust case was dismissed with prejudice as part of the framework agreement between the Tour, PIF and DP World Tour, but The Times filed a motion arguing the public’s right to information sealed in the case outweighed LIV Golf and PIF’s claims that public disclosure of certain documents could cause “competitive harm.