The NFL and DirecTV will be facing a major class-action lawsuit after prominent antitrust lawyer Michael Hausfeld and colleagues at Hausfeld LLP filed one on Monday.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Hausfeld seeks to represent a class of "commercial subscribers" to DirecTV's Sunday Ticket, with plaintiffs being bars and restaurants across the U.S. San Francisco pub The Mucky Duck is leading the charge towards ending what the plaintiffs consider a conspiracy.

DirecTV's Sunday Ticket is a package of all out-of-market NFL games. As noted by the report, if bars and restaurants want to show those games, they have no choice but to go through DirecTV, which as an exclusive $12 billion deal with the league.

The lawsuit points out that a bar with an occupancy of up to 100 patrons will pay $2,314 for Sunday Ticket in 2015, while larger establishments like hotels are charged more than $120,000 per year.

The complaint states that for NFL teams' agreement in which DirecTV has joined, teams would be competing against each other in the market for NFL football programming, a situation that is believed to induce more competitive pricing.

The report notes that last month, lawyers representing football fans filed their own class-action lawsuit over Sunday Ticket, which sought to end a system of blackouts and all-or-nothing out-of-market TV game packages.

"Of the four major professional sports in this country"”baseball, basketball, hockey, and football"”the only one with an exclusive out of market broadcasting arrangement is the NFL/DirecTV Sunday Ticket," states the complaint. "Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League all distribute live out of market games through multiple MVPDs [multichannel video programing distributors], including, for example, DirecTV, Dish Network, Comcast, Cox Cable and Time Warner.

The Hollywood Reporter points out that the plaintiffs are seeking the recovery of damages for "supracompetitive premiums" that DirecTV has charged for NFL Sunday Ticket, as well as an injunction on a deal renewed in 2014.