Charter Communications Inc must face a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing the cable company of providing customers slower-than-advertised internet speeds, a New York state judge ruled. Justice O. Peter Sherwood of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan rejected Charter’s claim that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman failed to plausibly allege the company had …
U.S. government claims that AT&T Mobility illegally slowed down or “throttled” data sent to wireless devices will be reheard, a U.S. appeals court in California said on Tuesday after it dismissed the case last year. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in an order that it would reconsider the “data throttling” case before the full or “en-banc” 11-judge panel.
Major record labels are once again trying to force an Internet service provider into enforcing their copyrights by cutting off customers from the Internet over copyright accusations. The lawsuit they filed against Texas broadband provider Grande Communications suffers from many of the same due process problems as the BMG Music Publishing v. Cox Communications case, which is on appeal. The issue …
Tech companies are increasingly getting hit with class-action complaints for sending text messages to consumers, according to the trade group Internet Association. The organization, made up of Google, Facebook, eBay and other large Web companies, made that statement in a regulatory filing summarizing a recent meeting between Internet Association officials and Federal Communications Commission …
The company formerly known as Time Warner Cable — now known as Spectrum after a merger between Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable — is being sued by New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman for allegedly lying to customers, since at least 2012, about their internet services. “The allegations in [this] lawsuit confirm what millions of New Yorkers have long suspected — Spectrum-Time …
The fine print of Charter Communications’ high-speed Internet service says a “small percent of customers will receive lower than advertised speeds.” One attorney general says the problem is actually widespread — “a consistent story of bad performance and a long-term business plan built on deceit.” New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman is suing Charter over allegedly false claims of fast …
New York Attorney Eric Schneiderman believes his lawsuit against Time Warner Cable and its successor–Charter Communications and its Internet service known as Spectrum–could have the greatest impact in Western New York, due to the limited choices Western New Yorkers have for getting on the Internet. Schneiderman filed a civil action against the nation’s second-largest …
On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman filed a lawsuit in the state’s Supreme Court against Time Warner Cable and its new parent company, Spectrum. The suit alleges that Spectrum-TWC conducted “a deliberate scheme to defraud and mislead New Yorkers by promising internet service that they knew they could not deliver.” According to the suit, Spectrum-TWC promised — oh, and …
The publishers of Wikipedia and several civil rights groups will head to a federal appeals court Thursday to challenge a National Security Agency surveillance program that mines Americans’ internet communications. A key hurdle for the groups will be to provide convincing evidence that their emails and other communications are among those collected in bulk by the NSA. A lower court previously …
Yelp.com is warning that a California lawsuit targeting critical posts about a law firm could lead to the removal of negative reviews and leave consumers with a skewed assessment of restaurants and other businesses. Lawyer Dawn Hassell said the business review website is exaggerating the stakes of her legal effort, which aims only to remove from Yelp lies, not just negative statements, that …