Charter Appealing Discovery Rulings in Univision, Fox News, Showtime Cases
Documents about how other cable companies' takeovers were treated by programmers "are necessary" to mounting a defense, Charter Communications said in notices of appeal (see here, here and here) filed Wednesday in New York Supreme Court in three related cases.…
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At issue are three March decisions by Supreme Court Judge Peter Sherwood -- who's hearing lawsuits by Fox News Network, Showtime Networks and Univision against Charter -- denying the operator's requests to compel production of programmer documents, ruling the material wasn't likely to lead to discovery of relevant or admissible evidence. The programmers are suing Charter over whether their legacy contracts with Time Warner Cable or their legacy contracts with Charter survived 2016's Charter/TWC. Counsel for the programmers didn't comment Thursday.