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BROOKHAVEN CABLE TV, INC. v. KELLY

Nos. 458, 482, Dockets 77-6156, 77-6157.

573 F.2d 765 (1978)

BROOKHAVEN CABLE TV, INC., Capital Cablevision, Inc., Samson Cablevision Corp., Teleprompter Electronics Corporation, Warner Cable of Olean, Inc., National Cable Television Association, Inc., New York State Cable Television Association and Home Box Office, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America and Federal Communications Commission, Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellees, v. Robert F. KELLY, Chairman, Jerry A. Danzig, Vice Chairman, Michael H. Pendergast, Eli Wagner and Edward J. Wegman, Commissioners of the New York State Commission on Cable Television, Defendants-Appellants, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart Robinowitz, New York City (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Robert S. Smith, Susan P. Carr and Jack A. Horn, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Eloise E. Davies, Atty., Appellate Section, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Paul V. French, U. S. Atty., Albany, N. Y. and Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, Gregory Christopher and Lauren Belvin, Counsels, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., on the brief), for intervenors-plaintiffs-appellees.

Charles A. Bradley, New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of N. Y., Ruth Kessler Toch, Sol. Gen. and Kenneth J. Connolly, Principal Atty., Albany, N. Y., on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

William R. Nusbaum, Deputy Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C. (Paul Rodgers, Gen. Counsel, and Charles A. Schneider, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for intervenor-defendant-appellant.

Before LUMBARD and OAKES, Circuit Judges, and WYZANSKI, District Judge.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises two questions: whether the Federal Communications Commission has the authority to preempt state and local price regulation of one aspect of cable television—specialized programming for which a per-program or per-channel charge is made—and if so, whether the FCC has adequately and effectively exercised that authority. The Northern District of New York, Port, J., finding that the FCC both possessed and had asserted...

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