PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP and Environmental Law Institute, et al., Petitioners,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al., Respondents.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued April 10, 1975.
Decided August 18, 1975.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas R. Asher, Washington, D. C., for petitioners.
John E. Ingle, Counsel, F.C.C., with whom Ashton R. Hardy, Gen. Counsel, Joseph A. Marino, Associate Gen. Counsel, Jack David Smith, Jr., Washington, D. C., and Robert B. Nicholson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for respondents.
Ellen Shaw Agress, New York City, on brief for Environment Action Friends of the Earth, The Massachusetts Audubon Society, Environmental Policy Center, Council on Economic Priorities, Project on Corporate Responsibility, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Public Media Center, Action for Children's Television and National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, amicus curiae.
Before McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges, TAURO, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
The question in this case is whether a Maine television station, having broadcast paid advertisements for snowmobiles, must air the viewpoints of those who hold that snowmobiles are environmentally destructive, dangerous, noisy and offensive. The Federal Communications Commission, construing its recently revised fairness doctrine, has ruled not. Peter B. Herbst, 48 F.C.C.2d 614, ...
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