The $4.7 billion NFL Sunday Ticket verdict was struck down by a federal judge Thursday night, a drastic move that takes the NFL off the hook for enormous damages.

U.S. District Court Judge Philip Gutierrez penned a 16-page ruling on why he made the extraordinary decision to set aside the verdict rendered after a three-week trial concluded June 27. In the order that granted the NFL’s motion to set aside the verdict, Gutierrez wrote the “jury’s damages verdict is clearly not supported by the evidence and must be vacated.”