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Tech your username 2 hours ago On Friday, Comcast and various channel providers, as well as the Governor of Maine, the Attorney General of Maine and several Maine cities and towns, moved for an entry of stipulated final judgment and order for declaratory and permanent injunctive relief in the District of Maine in the lawsuit spurring from Maine’s à la carte cable law. Specifically, the plaintiffs moved for the court to approve and enter the proposed Stipulated Final Judgment and Order, which will provide declaratory and permanent injunctive relief in a proposed settlement between the parti...

by Christopher Hutton Print this article Before the law went into effect, Maine’s court system granted Comcast a temporary injunction claiming that the law violated the cable providers’ First Amendment rights. A federal appeals court rejected a Maine law that would have required cable companies to provide subscribers the ability to purchase individual channels. For years, consumers have had to subscribe to large bundles to get access to most channels. Some consumers have asked to subscribe to channels independently but have mostly seen opposition to this...

Tech your username February 25, 2021 On Wednesday, the First Circuit issued an opinion affirming the District of Maine’s decision to grant a preliminary injunction to cable providers on First Amendment grounds against Maine regarding its à la carte cable law, ruling that cable providers should not be required to allow consumers to pick individual channels.  In 2019 Maine enacted a law (H.P. 606 – L.D. 832), entitled, “An Act to Expand Options for Consumers of Cable Television in Purchasing Individual Channels and Programs,” which requires cable companies to allow consumer...