Charter Seeks Reconsideration of Order in Carriage Discrimination Complaint
A judge's rejection of Charter Communications' bid to have a lawsuit alleging racially based discrimination in its program carriage decisions tossed out (see 1610260069) mischaracterizes the cable ISP's argument and doesn't reflect the arguments it actually put forth, Charter said…
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in a motion (in Pacer) for reconsideration filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Charter said the denial by Judge George Wu of Los Angeles acknowledged its argument about First Amendment protections for its programming but that it mistakenly suggests the company didn't argue that its contracting decisions also were protected by the First Amendment. The company also filed a motion (in Pacer) to stay proceedings pending its interlocutory appeal on the court's order on Charter's motion to dismiss the complaint brought by Entertainment Studios Networks and the National Association of African American Owned Media. Containing no new facts or law, the motion for reconsideration "is utterly without merit; and is derogation of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules of the Central District of California," plaintiffs' counsel Skip Miller of Miller Barondess emailed us Monday.