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…
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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).