Charter Owes Windstream $19.2M for Violating Stay: Bankruptcy Judge
Charter Communications owes Windstream $19.2 million in compensatory damages for violating an automatic stay against terminating their reseller agreement and its "literally false and intentionally misleading" ad campaign, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain in White Plains, New York, said…
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in a memorandum of decision Thursday (in Pacer, docket 19-08246). The stay “clearly and unambiguously” should have stopped Charter from terminating service at the start of Windstream’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and that termination itself was contrary to the terms of the reseller agreement, Drain said. The judge rejected multiple Charter criticisms of Windstream’s damages calculations, including $9.2 million in legal fees and expenses, though he rejected an additional $1 million in various legal fees. Charter didn't comment Friday.