Jan 15, 2010
Federal Judge Recertifies Class in Comcast Antitrust Case
A federal judge has once again certified a class action antitrust suit against cable television giant Comcast, declaring that the plaintiffs have succeeded in satisfying a new, stricter class action test imposed last year by the 3rd Circuit. The suit alleges the company set out to establish a monopoly in the Philadelphia market. Comcast and its would-be competitors, the suit alleges, struck a series of deals in which they “swapped” assets and customers so that each company would have “clusters” of markets.