Cable TV Prorating Law Hardly Rate Regulation, Maine Tells Court
Congress never intended the Cable Act to preempt states from stopping cable distributors from "bilking" residents, defendant Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) said Tuesday in a motion to dismiss Charter's lawsuit challenging the state requiring prorated refunds when customers…
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end service partway through a billing cycle (see 2005210004). "To call this 'rate regulation' barely passes the straightface test," the state filed in U.S. District Court in Bangor (in Pacer, docket 20-cv-00168). Compliance wouldn't cause operators irreparable harm, the state said in opposition to Charter seeking preliminary injunction. The cabler's outside counsel didn't comment Wednesday.