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COMMISSION v. SANDERS RADIO STATION

No. 499.

309 U.S. 470 (1940)

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. SANDERS BROTHERS RADIO STATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 25, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William J. Dempsey, with whom Solicitor General Biddle and Messrs. Richard H. Demuth, William C. Koplovitz, Robert M. Cooper, and Benedict P. Cottone were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Louis G. Caldwell, with whom Messrs. Reed T. Rollo, Donald C. Beelar, and Percy H. Russell, Jr. were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

We took this case to resolve important issues of substance and procedure arising under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.1

January 20, 1936, the Telegraph Herald, a newspaper published in Dubuque, Iowa, filed with the petitioner an application for a construction permit to erect a broadcasting station in that city. May 14, 1936, the respondent, who had for some years...

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