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COMM'N v. BROADCASTING SYSTEM

No. 39.

311 U.S. 132 (1940)

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM OF CALIFORNIA, INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 25, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Telford Taylor, with whom Solicitor General Biddle and Messrs. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Benedict P. Cottone, and Harry M. Plotkin were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Duke M. Patrick for respondent in No. 39. No appearance for respondent in No. 40.

MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

We brought these two cases here, 310 U.S. 617, because they raise questions of importance touching the distribution of judicial authority under the Communications Act of 1934. (Act of June 19, 1934, 48 Stat. 1064, as amended by the Act of June 5, 1936, 49 Stat. 1475, and by the Act of May 20, 1937, 50 Stat. 189; 47 U.S.C. § 151 et seq.)

Insofar as action of the Federal Communications Commission...

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