California Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Time Warner Cable After CBS, Showtime Blackouts

The face-off between Time Warner Cable and CBS continues to get uglier and uglier. And now the public is getting directly involved.

Deadline.com reports that three plaintiffs have filed a class action lawsuit against Time Warner Cable on behalf of the company's customers in California. This official complaint comes after the cable provider's back out of CBS, Showtime, Movie Channel and KCAL channels.

Since Friday, August 2, the conflict between the two companies has resulted in TWC removing CBS from the air in several major markets, CBS blocking its online content to TWC customers in retaliation, and thousands of viewers losing their access to Showtime.

Check out the suit in full HERE, and head on over to Deadline for the original report.

The three plaintiffs -- James Armstrong, Michael Pourtemour and Vatsana Bilavarn -- are asking for reimbursements for subscription fees and monthly rates charged during the CBS blackout.

Their argument, on behalf of millions of TWC customers, is that they would not have subscribed to TWC knowing the company would have excluded CBS' and Showtime's programming, including projects such as Dexter, Big Brother, NFL games and more.

The plaintiffs also point out that no notice was given on or before negotiations fell apart between CBS and TWC on August 2, and that by continuing to sell subscriptions to new customers during the blackout, TWC is violating its customers rights.

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