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Jury selection begins in Cablevision, Dish Network showdown

The Cablevision Systems Corp. headquarters in Bethpage. (Nov.

Photo credit: Bloomberg News

Jury selection is scheduled to continue in Manhattan Tuesday morning in a $2.4 billion trial pitting Cablevision Systems Corp. against Dish Network Corp.

A former unit of Bethpage-based Cablevision, Voom HD, filed the lawsuit in 2008, accusing Dish of breaking a 15-year satellite television contract between the companies.

Dish, of Englewood, Colo., says it pulled out of the deal because...

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