WASHINGTON—A black television programmer angry that Comcast Corp. refused to carry his company’s channels after years of unsuccessful negotiations should be able to sue the nation’s largest cable television provider for race-based discrimination under federal civil rights laws, his lawyer told skeptical members of the Supreme Court.
Philadelphia-based Comcast succeeded in having the $20 billion racial-spoils lawsuit dismissed early in the litigation process. But a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found the allegations raised against the company plausible enough to move forward and reinstated the action.
