Community Antenna Service, Inc. v. Charter Communications VI, LLC

KETCHUM, Justice:

This case has a simple central issue: did one television cable company offer discounted rates to some (but not all) of its customers in violation of a state law that prohibits “unduly discriminatory rates”?

The parties — two cable companies — have litigated this issue for over a decade. After a trial, a jury concluded that one cable company’s reduced i-ates for only a few of its customers violated state law, and were designed to unfairly drive the smaller and economically weaker cable company out of business. The jury awarded the smaller cable company compensatory and punitive…