Supreme Court to Hear Part of Comcast Challenge of Discrimination Suit
The Supreme Court will take up Comcast's appeal of a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversal of a lower court's dismissal of litigation alleging the operator engaged in with racial animus in programming decisions, with the court on Monday…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
announcing it granted cert in docket 18-1171. The court said it was considering only Question 1 in the petition, on whether a claim of race discrimination under federal law fails in the absence of but-for causation. Charter Communications also has a cert petition before the court involving an appeal of similar litigation brought by the same respondents, Entertainment Studios Networks and the National Association of African American Owned Media (see 1811190023).