DOJ Asks for Final Judgment in Charter/TWC/BHN
With Charter Communications having satisfied all the requirements of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, DOJ asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to enter final judgment in its civil antitrust proceeding against Charter. As part of…
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its Aug. 31 motion (in Pacer) with the court asking for final judgment, DOJ included a notice of compliance (in Pacer) saying Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks complied with the act's requirements. DOJ sued Charter/TWC/BHN in April, while simultaneously proposing a settlement that would limit Charter's use of most-favored-nation provisions and ban it from retaliating against programmers for licensing to online video distributors (see 1604250039). The case received one comment in the 60-day period, and DOJ said that dissatisfied customer's concerns fall outside the antitrust issues raised in the settlement (see 1608170016).