Cablevision Settles Set-Top-Box Suit

Cablevision Systems Corp. and CSC Holdings LLC reached a settlement with plaintiffs alleging they were forced to lease a set-top box from Cablevision to get cable service (Marchese v. Cablevision Systems Corp., D.N.J., 10-cv-02190, 12/11/15).

Cases against cable-television providers for allegedly tying the lease of a set-top box to the provision of premium cable-television service are percolating through several courts.

The settlement in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey comes roughly one month after an Oklahoma federal court threw out a $6.31 million jury verdict against Cox Communications Inc. after plaintiffs failed to ...