MIDWEST VIDEO CORPORATION, Petitioner,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., Intervenors.
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, Petitioner,
v.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., Intervenors.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted September 12, 1977.
Decided February 21, 1978.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
George H. Shapiro, Washington, D. C., for petitioner, Midwest Video Corp.; Wayne W. Owen and Harry E. McDermott, Jr., Moses, McClellan, Arnold, Owen & McDermott, Little Rock, Ark., and Harry M. Plotkin and Mary Candace Fowler, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin, Kahn, Washington, D. C., on brief.
Michael Botein, Rutgers Law School, Newark, N. J., for petitioner, American Civil Liberties Union; Joel M. Gora, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, on brief.
Julian R. Rush, Jr., Counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., for respondent, F. C. C.
James F. Ponsoldt, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent, United States.
John H. Shenefield, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Carl D. Lawson and James F. Ponsoldt, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Werner K. Hartenberger, Gen. Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, and Julian R. Rush, Jr., Counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., on brief for respondents.
Charles M. Firestone, Citizens Communications Center, Washington, D. C., for intervenors, Natl. Black Media Coalition, et al.; Susan Dillon, Legal Intern, and Christopher Ma, Legal Intern, on brief.
John H. Midlen and Dennis F. Begley of Midlen & Reddy, Washington, D. C., on brief for intervenors, Coldwater Cablevision Inc. and Michigan CA-TV Co.
Stuart F. Feldstein, Frederick W. Finn and Arthur H. Harding, National Cable Television Assn., Inc., Washington, D. C., on brief amicus curiae for National Cable Television Assn., Inc.
Barry P. Simon, Teleprompter Corp., New York City, and Jay E. Ricks, Robert R. Bruce and Gardner F. Gillespie, Washington, D. C., on brief for Teleprompter Corp., amicus curiae in support of petitioner, Midwest Video Corp.
Before STEPHENSON and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Chief Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Petitioners, Midwest Video Corporation (Midwest) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), seek review of the Federal Communications Commission's (Commission's) Report and Order in Docket No. 20508, 59 F.C.C.2d 294 (released May 13, 1976), reconsideration denied, 62 F.C.C.2d 399 (released December 21, 1976) (1976 Report)1 imposing mandatory access and channel capacity requirements upon certain...
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