Cablevision subscribers can’t watch their sports, and they’re not happy about it.

A group of New Yorkers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Cablevision for its failure to provide Fox content for the past two weeks- a time period they consider “important” for the sports, politics and entertainment they are being deprived of.  The suit claims that the plaintiffs deserve compensation (to the tune of $450 million or more) for Cablevisions’ inability to reach an agreement with News Corp, despite receiving proposals to carry Fox programming “on the same terms and conditions of other cable providers in the New York metropolitan market."

The suit accuses cablevision of breach of contract, unjust enrichment and consumer fraud, because customers’ service agreements included a promise that they would receive "a credit for each 'known program or service interruption in excess of 24 consecutive hours.'" The suit also seeks a permanent injunction that forces Cablevision to enter into dispute resolution procedures with its content providers to that customers will not be deprived of programing in the future.

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For more on Contract law, take a look at Anatomy of a Contract by Jeffrey Helewitz and Hon. Eileen Nadelson