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FTC Drops Its DirecTV False Advertising Litigation

The FTC's $3.95 billion lawsuit against DirecTV is over. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam of Oakland Monday signed off on a stipulation (in Pacer, docket 15-cv-01129-HSG) the litigation is voluntarily dismissed with prejudice and the two sides agree to bear…

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their own costs. The judge in August threw out some of the false advertising claims against the direct broadcast satellite company (see 1808160070).