M. GOLDSEKER REAL ESTATE COMPANY v. F. C. C.

No. 71-1798.

456 F.2d 919 (1972)

M. GOLDSEKER REAL ESTATE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents. Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, Inc., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 14, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin Goldstein and Thomas J. Kenney, Baltimore, Md. (Burke, Gerber, & Wilen, Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for petitioner.

Katrina Renouf, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission (John W. Pettit, Gen. Counsel, Joseph A. Marino, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, and Richard W. McLaren, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Lee Rau, Atty., Dept. of Justice, on the brief) for respondents.

John D. Lane, Washington, D. C. (Ramsey L. Woodworth and Hedrick & Lane, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for intervenor.

Before RUSSELL and FIELD, Circuit Judges, and CHAPMAN, District Judge.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

Between November 19, and December 18, 1970, the television station WJZ-TV of Baltimore, as a part of its daily news programs, broadcast a series of reports on housing problems in Baltimore. The reports were critical of the practices of a number of real estate operators, the largest of whom was the petitioner, and certain named savings and loan associations. The petitioner, which was identified by name in the series, took the position...

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