Legal Opinion
Healy v. Cox Communications, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 19, 2017No. 15-6218 15-6222PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
Cox Cable subscribers cannot access premium cable services—features such as interactive program guides, pay-per-view programming, and recording or rewinding capabilities—unless they also rent a set-top box from Cox. Dissatisfied with this arrangement, a class of plaintiffs in Oklahoma City (“Plaintiffs”) sued Cox under the antitrust laws. They alleged that Cox had illegally tied cable, services to set-top-box rentals in violation of § 1 of the Sherman Act, which prohibits illegal restraints of trade. See 15 U.S.C. § 1.
Though a jury found that Plaintiffs had proved the…
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