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BRANTLEY v. NBC UNIVERSAL, INC.

No. 09-56785.

649 F.3d 1078 (2011)

Rob BRANTLEY, Darryn Cooke, William and Beverley Costley, Peter G. Harris, Christiana Hills, Michael B. Kovac, Michelle Navarrette, Joy Psachie and Joseph Vranich, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NBC UNIVERSAL, INC., Viacom Inc., The Walt Disney Company, Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., Time Warner Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., Comcast Corporation, Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, CoxCom, Inc., The DIRECTV Group, Inc., EchoStar Satellite L.L.C., and Cable Vision Systems Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 3, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxwell M. Blecher, Esq. , Bletcher & Collins, PC, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants Rob Brantley, et al.

Glenn D. Pomerantz, Esq. , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, and Arthur J. Burke, Esq. , Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Menlo Park, CA, for defendants-appellees NBC Universal, Inc., et al.

Before: PAMELA ANN RYMER, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

This case is a consumer protection class action masquerading as an antitrust suit. Plaintiffs are a putative class of retail cable and satellite television subscribers. They brought suit against television programmers (Programmers)1 and distributors (Distributors)2 alleging that Programmers' practice of selling multi-channel cable packages violates Section 1 of the Sherman...

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