RCA GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. F.C.C.

Civ. A. No. 81-74.

524 F.Supp. 579 (1981)

RCA GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

October 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Wise, Jr., Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff; Alexander P. Humphrey, IV, Robert F. Heath, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Joseph J. Farnan, U.S. Atty., John X. Denney, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., for F.C.C.; Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Div., Vincent M. Garvey, Dina R. Lassow, Dept. of Justice, Lawrence S. Schaffner, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Nancy E. Stanley, Asst. Gen. Counsel, John P. Greenspan, Mark S. Hayes, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Somers S. Price, Jr., of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for Western Union; William R. Weissman, of Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, D. C., of counsel.


OPINION

STAPLETON, District Judge.

On February 20, 1981, RCA Global Communications, Inc. ("RCA Globcom") filed suit against the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC")1 to compel the Commission to disclose some three thousand pages of documents. The documents are the fruits of a subpoena issued to the Western Union Telegraph Company ("Western Union"), which is the target of an ongoing FCC investigation. Along with its Freedom...

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