October 05, 2016
A California judge Wednesday dismissed a $20 billion racial discrimination suit filed against Comcast by television producer Byron Allen's company and the National Association of African American Owned Media, saying an amended complaint still didn't show how Comcast's decision not to carry their stations involved bias.
July 12, 2016
Comcast on Monday blasted a $20 billion suit accusing it of refusing to carry African-American-owned networks as being nothing more than "extortion by litigation," telling a California federal judge the suit is a "scam" backed with nothing more than conspiracy theories and must be dismissed.
December 14, 2015
A $20 billion suit accusing Comcast of refusing to carry African-American-owned networks still failed to cite specific facts to pursue bias allegations — even after an allegedly-wronged network reworked its complaint — the cable giant told a California federal judge Friday.
October 22, 2015
Comcast asked a California federal judge Wednesday to toss a $20 billion lawsuit accusing the company of discriminating against black-owned media companies, saying an updated complaint still contains no facts to support wide-ranging conspiracy claims.
September 15, 2015
An African-American-owned media company has dropped its Ninth Circuit appeal of a California federal judge's dismissal of a $20 billion racial bias suit against Time Warner Cable Inc. and Comcast Corp. after the district court judge allowed an amended complaint.
August 07, 2015
A $20 billion suit claiming that Time Warner Cable Inc., Comcast Corp. and others discriminated against black-owned media companies and that Comcast paid off civil rights groups to look the other way was dismissed by a California federal court that found the suit lacked sufficient facts to proceed.
May 26, 2015
Time Warner Cable Inc., Comcast Corp. and other defendants in a $20 billion suit alleging racial discrimination of an African-American-owned media company asked a California federal judge Friday to dismiss the suit for several reasons, including that it lacks sufficient facts.
May 11, 2015
A group representing African-American-owned media companies shot back against Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc. and various civil rights groups in California federal court Friday, saying the $20 billion racial discrimination suit was plausible enough to move to discovery.
April 27, 2015
Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. asked a California federal judge Friday to toss a complaint alleging Comcast led a conspiracy to exclude black-owned media companies while paying civil rights groups for complicity, arguing the $20 billion suit is a business dispute disguised as a racial discrimination case.
February 23, 2015
Potential merger partners Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. discriminate against black-owned media companies, according to a $20 billion suit filed Friday in California federal court, which also claims Comcast paid off civil rights organizations including Al Sharpton's National Action Network to look the other way.