Television mogul and businessman Bryon Allen criticized a unanimous opinion Monday by the Supreme Court that dropped his $20 billion racial bias lawsuit with Comcast. SCOTUS ruled that the matter needs to be reviewed in a lower courtroom, The New York Times reports.
In a written statement, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of President Donald Trump’s conservative appointees, wrote, “to prevail, a plaintiff (Allen) must initially plead and ultimately prove that, but for race, it would not have suffered.”
Essentially, the decision favors Comcast and Charter Communications, which won’t distribute Allen’s stations. In order for Allen to win this case in a lower court, Allen’s Entertainment Studios Network and the National Association of African American-Owned Media would have to prove that race played a factor in his networks being curbed by Comcast – which some say would be hard to do.
“This is a very bad day for our country,” Allen told Yahoo in a statement. “Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has rendered a ruling that is harmful to the civil rights of millions of Americans.”
