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YELLOW FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC. v. F. C. C.

No. 79-2237.

656 F.2d 600 (1981)

YELLOW FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC., Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, and National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Abrams, New York City (Laurence A. Silverman and Susan Fine of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, of counsel; Howard Monderer, Vice President, Law, Washington, D. C., and Carol Hecht Katz, New York City, of National Broadcasting Co., Inc., with him on the brief), for intervenor.

Lester M. Bridgeman, Washington, D. C. (Louis T. Urbanczyk, Washington, D. C., with him on the brief), for petitioner.

Lisa B. Margolis, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Sanford M. Litvack, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Nicholson and Margaret G. Halpern, Attys., Dept. of Justice; Robert R. Bruce, General Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate General Counsel, and Keith H. Fagan, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D. C., with her on the brief), for respondents.

Before McWILLIAMS and LOGAN, Circuit Judges, and BOHANON, District Judge.

McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Yellow Freight System, Inc., a national trucking company which operates, inter alia, in Kansas, seeks review of an order of the Federal Communications Commission.1

Yellow Freight filed a complaint with the Commission against the National Broadcasting Company, complaining about three television reports relating to lack of highway safety in the trucking industry. The NBC reporter...

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