Dillon v. U-A Columbia Cablevision of Westchester, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Plaintiff, a customer of defendant cable television company, commenced this purported class action for compensatory and punitive damages challenging the $5 late fee she paid to defendant for her late payments. The complaint alleges that, although defendant in its promotional materials characterized the late fee as an administrative fee intended to be a reasonable estimate of its costs resulting from customers’ late payments and nonpayments, it was an unlawful penalty bearing no relation to…