CENTURY FEDERAL, INC. v. CITY OF PALO ALTO, CAL.

No. C-85-2168 EFL.

648 F.Supp. 1465 (1986)

CENTURY FEDERAL, INC., a California Corporation, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, a Municipal corporation; City of Palo Alto Utilities, a Municipal utility; City of Menlo Park, California, a Municipal corporation; and City of Atherton, California, a Municipal corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

December 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold R. Farrow, Farrow, Schildhause, Wilson & Rains, Oakland, Cal., for plaintiff.

Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, San Francisco, Cal., for Palo Alto and Atherton.

John R. Cosgrove, Jorgenson, Cosgrove, Siegel & McClure, Menlo Park, Cal., for Menlo Park.


ORDER GRANTING PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

LYNCH, District Judge.

This action involves an aspiring cable television operator's first amendment challenge to the defendant municipalities' use of an exclusive franchising arrangement to limit to one the number of cable operators granted access to those facilities necessary to install cables within the defendants' boundaries. Plaintiff now moves for an order granting partial summary judgment

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