(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court told a lower court to reconsider its decision to let Byron Allen’s media company press a racial discrimination lawsuit against cable television provider Comcast Corp.

The unanimous ruling said a federal appeals court used the wrong legal standard in the suit by Entertainment Studios Networks Inc., which says racial discrimination is the reason it couldn’t get its channels onto the carrier’s cable systems. Allen’s company is pressing a similar suit against Charter Communications Inc.

The justices are issuing opinions online Monday and not from the bench, breaking with longstanding tradition because of the coronavirus outbreak. The last time the court had ruled in an argued case without taking the bench was the 2000 Bush v. Gore decision.

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