The Supreme Courtroom handed a win to Comcast on Monday in a long-running racial discrimination go well with introduced by the black media mogul Byron Allen, who alleged the cable big discriminated towards him when it refused to hold channels operated by his tv community, Leisure Studios. 

In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the highest court docket agreed with Comcast in upholding a excessive bar for bringing fits underneath the 1866 Civil Rights Act. The justices despatched the case again to the ninth U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals, which had earlier dominated Allen want solely attain an easier-to-meet discrimination normal, to contemplate the matter as soon as once more. 

The end result appeared doubtless after oral arguments in November, when the justices appeared skeptical of Allen's place. The opinion was handed down whereas the court docket stays closed to public the due to the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the nation. 

Civil rights activists have been intently watching the battle. Kristen Clarke, president of...