June 10, 2019
Begley Carlin & Mandio LLP, NastLaw LLC and Wexler Wallace LLP urged a federal court in Philadelphia on Friday to approve $1.1 million in fees on top of a $15.5 million class action settlement between Comcast and subscribers who claim the company unlawfully forced them to rent set-top boxes from the cable company.
September 05, 2018
Comcast and a group of subscribers won preliminary approval Wednesday from a Pennsylvania federal judge who signed off on their years-old $15.5 million deal resolving an antitrust class action over tying premium subscriptions to cable box rentals, with payouts largely limited to customers who opted out of an arbitration clause.
December 16, 2015
The Third Circuit has agreed to hear an appeal by a group of Comcast subscribers who want the court to overturn a Pennsylvania court's rejection of their $15.5 million settlement in a putative class action alleging the company forced premium subscribers to rent set-top boxes.
November 05, 2015
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday denied a proposed settlement of multidistrict litigation in which Comcast agreed to pay $15.5 million to resolve claims it forced premium subscribers to rent set-top boxes, saying the subscribers haven't come up with an effective way of determining who belongs in the putative class.