Maine Urges Undoing a la Carte Cable Law Preliminary Injunction

A lower court erred in granting Comcast and programmers a preliminary injunction on First Amendment grounds enjoining enforcement of a state law requiring cable operators to offer programming à la carte, defendant-appellants Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and Attorney General Aaron Frey said in a docket 20-1104 brief Wednesday with the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "The law does not implicate the First Amendment [as it] neither stifles nor requires speech." Outside counsel for appellees Comcast, A&E, C-SPAN, ViacomCBS, Discovery, Disney, Fox and New England Sports Network didn't comment Thursday.