Texas Cable Suit Dismissed

TEXAS CABLE SUIT DISMISSED
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
A federal judge in Texas Thursday tossed out the cable industry's suit aimed at overturning the state’s cable-franchising law that went into effect last September. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel dismissed the case by the Texas Cable & Telecommunications Association, holding that it was too early to determine whether the economic impact of the law could support the TCTA’s claims of unconstitutionality. "Until TCTA can establish the [law's] harmful impact on its incumbent cable providers, TCTA's claims are not ripe for the court's consideration," Yeakel said in an eight-page opinion. The TCTA alleged that the law, because it treated incumbents differently from new entrants seeking franchises, violated federal cable law and several provisions of the federal constitution.
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