Cableview Denies Settlement Agreement in TWC Suit Appeal
Cableview Communications never agreed to settlement terms with Time Warner Cable Southeast, and a U.S. Magistrate judge's finding otherwise avoided the question of whether TWC-SE engaged in tortious interference with Cableview's negotiated sale to FTS USA, Cableview said in an…
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initial brief (in Pacer) Monday filed with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Cableview sued TWC-SE in 2013 -- adding defendant Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership last year in an amended complaint -- alleging TWC-SE interfered in Cableview's deal with FTS in order to get Cableview to pay a disputed debt involving a worker injured while stringing cable wires for TWE-ANP. In the appeal of the January summary judgment (see 1702060057), Cableview said the totality of evidence shows that instead of a settlement, TWC-SE "was acting as an economic bully, asserting its demands unilaterally upon Cableview." Counsel for the appellees didn't comment Tuesday.