[HarryHirsch]

I'm just curious what Comcast and Google are trying to defend against. You'd think that the cases your typical home subscriber and probably your business subscriber would bring would in most all cases be litigated in Small Claims court. It would be about early termination because the connection is too poor or the uptime does not conform to contract.

Are they trying to quash class-action suits or what? I haven't got a clue, someone more familiar with the subject should clue us all in.

[hodgesrm]

It's usually class actions, which can be very expensive to fight and have large enough awards that legal teams are motivated take them on contingency. The claims you describe are so small they are barely worth litigating even in Small Claims court.