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Fendelander et al v. Walt Disney Company
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5:22-cv-07533
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January 09, 2024
Streaming Viewers Blast Disney For Repeats, 'False' Args
Consumers are fighting to preserve a proposed antitrust class action targeting Disney live-streaming carriage agreements that forbid streaming services from excluding ESPN from cheap bundle packages, assailing the entertainment giant for "relitigating" issues the California federal judge already said could move forward.
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December 04, 2023
Disney Again Targets ESPN Streaming Bundles Suit
Disney urged a California federal judge to nix a proposed antitrust class action targeting live-streaming carriage agreements forbidding ESPN's exclusion from cheap bundling packages, arguing that tweaks to the subscribers' suit can't save previously nixed damages claims and that the judge should've tossed the entirety of the suit.
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October 02, 2023
ESPN Fee Class Action Can Proceed, But Without Damages
A federal judge in California on Friday allowed parts of a putative class action claiming that Disney's ESPN carriage agreements violate the Sherman Act to proceed, but tossed the plaintiffs' claims for damages, giving them until Oct. 16 to amend and refile.
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July 05, 2023
Disney Wants Discovery Pause In Streamers' Antitrust Suit
Disney has urged a California federal court to pause discovery in a pair of cases from YouTubeTV and DirecTV subscribers alleging the company drove their bills up by forcing expensive ESPN channels onto their services.
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April 10, 2023
Streamers Fight To Keep Disney, ESPN Antitrust Suit Alive
YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers have urged a California federal court in two separate but similar suits to ignore Disney's bids to dismiss claims that the company drove their bills up by forcing expensive ESPN channels onto their services, arguing that by directly owning its own streaming platform, Disney's deals with YouTube TV and DirecTV were illegal horizontal agreements.
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January 31, 2023
Disney Calls ESPN Deals 'Vertical' In Bid To Nix Antitrust Suits
The Walt Disney Co. fired back at separate proposed antitrust class actions from YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers who claim Disney drove their bills up by forcing ESPN channels onto their services, arguing Tuesday that it is a supplier of channels, not a competitor.
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December 01, 2022
DirecTV Streamers Join Tying Fight With Disney Over ESPN
Walt Disney Corp. has been hit with a proposed antitrust class action in California federal court accusing the company of a scheme to hike streaming live pay television prices through a series of agreements with competitors that required them to carry its ESPN channel on their platforms.