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Feb 3, 2021 · The settlement is the latest for Allen, who announced a deal last summer to end his $10 billion action against Comcast Communications. PREVIOUSLY, August 29: Byron Allen and Entertainment...
- Alexandra Del Rosario
Jun 11, 2020 · Rena Paul Jun 11th, 2020, 5:02 pm. Byron Allen and Comcast have reached a settlement on Allen’s racial-discrimination lawsuit, months after the Supreme Court held Allen had to show that race was the main motivator for Comcast’s decision not to carry a suite of his cable channels.
Jun 11, 2020 · June 11, 2020 7 AM PT. Los Angeles media mogul Byron Allen has ended his high-profile legal battle over alleged racism by cable juggernaut Comcast Corp. after a five-year campaign that...
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Jun 24, 2021 · Allen sued Comcast, claiming racial discrimination when the cable giant refused to carry his company’s entertainment channels. The case made it all the way up to the Supreme Court, with a...
- The Court’S Decision
- A Quiet Revolution
- More Changes Could Be on The Way
- Congress Can Fix This
The nine justices ruledunanimously for Comcast, concluding that plaintiffs must meet the higher but-for standard. Writing for the court, Justice Neil Gorsuch deemed but-for causation the default rule for federal legislation and read the 1866’s text as “suggestive” of a but-for requirement. Gorsuch dismissed the motivating-factor test as a modern ju...
That the court sided with Comcast 9-0 might suggest this was an easy case. In fact, the unanimous outcome demonstrates how dramatically the law has turned away from protecting civil rights in recent years. In 1989, the Supreme Court decided the seminal case Price Waterhouse v. Hopkinsconcerning Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohi...
More legal moves that undermine anti-discrimination law may be on the horizon. The Comcastruling threatens to unravel a legal precedent set in 1975 that allows individuals to sue over contract discrimination in the first place. Justice Gorsuch wrote that the precedent came in an era when the court was more willing to imply such rights, and noted th...
The Comcastruling unduly narrows the 1866 Civil Rights Act, making contract discrimination much harder to prove. And the Supreme Court may not be finished restricting anti-discrimination law. If there’s hope for victims of racial bias, however, it’s that Congress has the final say over the meaning of its statutes. The public should demand that Cong...
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Jun 12, 2020 · Comcast settled a long-running a long-running racial discrimination dispute with black media mogul Byron Allen, agreeing to add three of Allen's channels to its cable packages.
Jun 11, 2020 · Published 10:13 AM PDT, June 11, 2020. Comcast settled a long-running a long-running racial discrimination dispute with black media mogul Byron Allen, agreeing to add three of Allen’s channels to its cable packages. Allen sued Comcast for $20 billion in 2015 for refusing to carry seven of his networks, saying it was because of his race.
