Miller Barondess represents Entertainment Studios Networks, Inc. in a civil rights lawsuit against Charter Communications. Entertainment Studios is a 100% African American-owned media company that owns and operates television channels featuring lifestyle content with broad audience appeal. The channels are carried by Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, DirecTV, DISH and many other major distributors. Entertainment Studios alleges...Read More
By Kevin Stawicki, Law360 – June 11, 2020 – A black-owned production studio whose discrimination suit against Comcast went to the U.S. Supreme Court reached a settlement with the cable company that includes a new content and distribution arrangement to resolve claims it would have carried its channels “but for” racial bias. Entertainment Studios Networks Inc., a company owned...Read More
By Greg Moran, The San Diego Union-Tribune – July 11, 2019 – A federal appeals court on Thursday revived a civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed by a San Diego police officer in a controversial 2015 shooting incident in the Midway District — a sweeping ruling that sets the stage...Read More
By Renee Flannery, Daily Journal – February 10, 2017 – A former chief campus counsel at UC Riverside won a $2.5 million verdict when a Riverside County Superior Court jury found she was wrongfully terminated for reporting gender discrimination at the school. Michele Coyle, who worked as UC Riverside chief counsel from 2006 to 2012,...Read More