Judge Agrees to Keep Charter’s Settlement Terms With ex-BEAD Director Private
U.S. District Judge Omar Williams for Connecticut in New Haven granted plaintiff Charter Communications and defendant Bridger Mahlum, Charter’s former director-state government affairs, an additional 14 days, to Nov. 21, to finalize their settlement agreement and to voluntarily dismiss the…
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case, said the judge’s text-only order Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-01106). Williams also granted the parties’ request that they be allowed to file a notice of dismissal rather than a copy of the settlement agreement, “given the confidential nature of the terms of the agreement,” said the order. Charter had sought injunctive relief against Mahlum to prevent him from going to work for BroadbandMT, a direct competitor, and from spilling Charter’s state broadband, equity, access and deployment program trade secrets with his new employer (see 2308210001).