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Time Warner Cable customers push ahead with $5M lawsuit over missing Linsanity: report

A group of Time Warner Cable customers are pushing forward with a $5 million class action lawsuit against the cable operator for missing the Knicks’ Jeremy Lin-fueled winning streak last month.

The Knicks won seven in a row after Lin came off the bench and scored 25 points in a game against the Nets on February 4, but many fans in the New York-area couldn’t see those games because MSG was locked in a carriage dispute with Time Warner Cable.

The discord prevented subscribers from watching the channel.

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The dispute was settled on Feb. 17 and MSG returned to TV sets across the area, just in time for Knicks fans to catch the team’s first loss in more than a week.

Now, a group of plaintiffs are demanding that Time Warner Cable reimburse them for more than $5 million in service fees and charges for witholding programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The named plaintiff, who filed his suit on behalf of all similarly situated individuals for redress, is Harold Hoffman, an Englewood, NJ resident who indicated that he had no choice but to subscribe to Time Warner Cable.

Hoffman claims a Time Warner Cable representative promised him he would receive programming on MSG and MSG+ when he signed up in 2008. And, he says no other cable service was available, and since he doesn’t own his place, he couldn’t have a DirecTV satellite antenna installed on the property.

Hoffman also says that when MSG and MSG+ were taken off the air, he couldn’t deduct those charges from his bill.

Class action lawsuits arising out of carriage disputes have previously not been successful, THR notes.