Comcast Backed by High Court on Philadelphia Antitrust Suit

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Comcast Corp., the nation’s largest cable-television company, doesn’t have to defend against an $875 million antitrust lawsuit on behalf of as many as 2 million Philadelphia-area customers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

The justices, voting 5-4 to reverseBloomberg Terminal a lower court, said the case against Comcast was too unwieldy to proceed as a single class-action lawsuit.