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POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS v. F. C. C.

No. 74-1412.

520 F.2d 1248 (1975)

POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS and Thaddeus L. Kowalski, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thaddeus L. Kowalski, Edmund A. Godula, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

James A. McKenna, Jr., Carl R. Ramey, Washington, D. C., for intervenor.

Ashton R. Hardy, Joseph A. Marino, R. Michael Senkowski, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., Carl D. Lawson, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents.

Before HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge, and CUMMINGS and STEVENS, Circuit Judges.

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

This petition asks us to set aside an order of the Federal Communications Commission denying the complaint of petitioners that American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ("ABC") violated the Federal Communications Commission's fairness doctrine and personal attack rule by refusing petitioners air-time to respond to an August 10, 1972, broadcast of the Dick Cavett Show containing Polish jokes.

During the program in question, comedian Bob...

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