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BILINGUAL BICULTURAL COALITION OF MASS MED., INC. v. F. C. C.

No. 72-2205.

492 F.2d 656 (1974)

The BILINGUAL BICULTURAL COALITION OF MASS MEDIA, INC., Appellant, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee, Avco Broadcasting Corporation, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 13, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juan Rocha, Jr., San Antonio, Tex., for appellant. Joseph L. Gibson, Washington, D. C., was on the brief for appellant.

Joseph Volpe, III, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission with whom John W. Pettit, Gen. Counsel and Joseph A. Marino, Associate Gen. Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, were on the brief, for appellee.

Edgar W. Holtz and Richard S. Rodin, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for intervenor.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, ROBB, Circuit Judge, and VAN PELT, United States Senior District Judge for the District of Nebraska.

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

Appellants challenge the Federal Communications Commission's renewal of a broadcast license on the ground that the station's employment practices discriminate against Mexican-Americans. Their appeal requires us to consider once again1 the role of statistical evidence in establishing discrimination.

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On April 28, 1971, the Avco Broadcasting Company filed its license renewal application for WOAI-TV...

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