EASTON PUB. CO. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COM'N

No. 9829.

175 F.2d 344 (1949)

EASTON PUB. CO. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (ALLENTOWN BROADCASTING CORPORATION et al., Intervenors).

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Eliot C. Lovett, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Richard A. Solomon, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Benedict P. Cottone, General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Mr. Max Goldman, Acting Assistant General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, and Miss Mary Jane Morris, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Paul Dobin, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Mr. Donald C. Beelar, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Louis G. Caldwell and R. Russell Eagan, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for intervenor Allentown Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Reed T. Rollo, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for intervenor Allentown Broadcasting Corporation.

Messrs. Geo. O. Sutton, William Thomson and John H. Midlen, Washington, D. C., entered appearances for intervenor Associated Broadcasters, Inc.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Judge, and PRETTYMAN and PROCTOR, Circuit Judges.


PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Federal Communications Commission.1 Four applications for an unlimited-time standard broadcast station2 in the general area of Allentown-Easton, Pennsylvania, were made to the Commission. The various applications were mutually exclusive. They were consolidated for hearing, evidence was taken, and a...

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