U.S. Senior District Judge John Padova today granted in part and denied in part the motion of Comcast for summary judgment on claims that it violated sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act by entering into market-allocation agreements with competitors and monopolizing the market for cable services in the Philadelphia area.
Judge Padova's 72-page Memorandum dismisses the section 1 per se claim and parts of the section 2 claims but finds triable issues of fact on the section 1 rule of reason claim and the balance of the section 2 claims.
[Blawgletter has the honor to serve as co-lead counsel for the class.]
That year, cable TV was deregulated, the telecommunications monopolist AT&T was split up, and the government had just dropped its antitrust suit against IBM.
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