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ILLINOIS CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR BROADCASTING v. F. C. C.

No. 72-1436.

467 F.2d 1397 (1972)

ILLINOIS CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR BROADCASTING, a not-for-profit association, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and the United States of America, Respondents, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall Patner and Thomas R. Meites, Jeffrey Jahns, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

John W. Pettit, Gen. Counsel, Joseph A. Marino, Associate Gen. Counsel, R. Michael Senkowski, Atty., F.C.C., Thomas E. Kauper, Asst. Atty. Gen., George Edelstein, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents.

Harry M. Plotkin, Peter Tannenwald, Gary M. Epstein, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, Washington, D. C., Leo H. Arnstein, Burton Y. Weitzenfeld, Louis A. Lehr, Jr., Chicago, Ill., for intervenor.

Before SWYGERT, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and STEVENS, Circuit Judges.

SWYGERT, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Federal Communications Commission dismissing petitioners' complaint for want of jurisdiction. Petitioners are the Illinois Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, an organization concerned with the protection and improvement of television broadcasting, and five individuals who are members of that organization and television viewers. The suit is brought on behalf of the petitioners, all television viewers in...

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