NBCU Given Additional Time To Respond to Dish Suit

NBCUniversal got extra time to respond to Dish Network's breach-of-contract claims. In an order (in Pacer) Monday, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Rockford, Illinois, granted NBCU's motion that cited professional and personal obligations of its counsel and set a May 27 deadline for responsive pleading in the suit, instead of April 25, with a status hearing set for June 7. Dish's March lawsuit alleged screen crawls warning about possible dropping of NBC programming violates its contract with the network (see 1603150053).