PIEDMONT PUBLISHING CO. v. ROGERS

Docket No. 24268.

193 Cal.App.2d 171 (1961)

14 Cal. Rptr. 133

PIEDMONT PUBLISHING COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Respondents, v. MARY PICKFORD ROGERS et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

June 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harned Pettus Hoose, Wayne I. McClaskey and Maurice L. Muehle for Appellants.

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, W.P. Sandridge, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Sherman Welpton, Jr., F. Lee Coulter, Jr., O'Melveny & Myers, Philip F. Westbrook, Jr., and William W. Vaughn for Respondents.


DRAPEAU, J. pro tem.*

Piedmont Publishing Company, a North Carolina corporation, and Mary Pickford Rogers, star of silent pictures, were rival applicants for a license by the Federal Communications Commission for a television station in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Piedmont owned and published two newspapers in Winston-Salem, and also owned and operated a radio broadcasting station there.

Piedmont and Miss Pickford decided...

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