Supreme Court to Consider Curbing Racial Discrimination Claims
- Justices to referee Comcast’s clash with black-owned company
- Company claims bias is reason Comcast wouldn’t carry channels
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider making it harder to press some types of civil rights suits, agreeing to hear an appeal from cable television provider Comcast Corp. in a clash with a black-owned media company.
Comcast is attempting to stop a lawsuit by Entertainment Studios Networks Inc., which says racial discrimination is the reason it couldn’t get its channels onto the carrier’s cable systems. A federal appeals court let the suit go forward.