4th Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Charter Rate Hike Suit
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a U.S. District Court's dismissal of a Charter Communications customer's lawsuit against the MVPD over a rate hike. In a docket 19-1460 opinion Thursday, Judges James Wynn, Pamela Harris and William Traxler…
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said U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel of Beaufort, South Carolina, didn't make a reversible error in dismissing the case after the plaintiff never responded to a Charter motion to dismiss. Plaintiff Heather Hoffman of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, sued in 2018 alleging a cable and broadband rate hike was done without the required 30-day advance written notice.