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HOPKINSVILLE CABLE TV, INC. v. PENNYROYAL CABLEVISION, INC.

Civ. A. No. 81-0270-P(G).

562 F.Supp. 543 (1982)

HOPKINSVILLE CABLE TV, INC., Plaintiff, v. PENNYROYAL CABLEVISION, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Kentucky, Paducah Division.

March 11, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stites, McElwain & Fowler, J. Bissell Roberts, Louisville, Ky., George Shapiro, James P. Mercurio, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Hahn, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Steven Underwood and John Chewning, Hopkinsville, Ky., for City of Hopkinsville & Deatherage.

Henry Watson, III, Municipal League, Lexington, Ky., for City of Hopkinsville.

Douglas Becker, Robert J. Beale, Cooper, Kiel & Beale, Louisville, Ky., for City of Hopkinsville, Mayor Al Rutland and Wendell Rorie.

Bert T. Combs, Sheryl G. Snyder, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, Ky., for Baum, Henry, Klungness, Reynolds, Smith, Spangler, Sunderlands, Thomas, Weary, Pennyroyal, Deatherage, Fletcher, Futrell and Owens.

Morton J. Holbrook, Holbrook, Gary, Wible & Sullivan, PSC, Owensboro, Ky., for Pennyroyal Cablevision, Inc., Fletcher, Futrell, Owen and Deatherage.

Laurence J. Zielke, Pedley, Ross & Zielke, Louisville, Ky., for Pamela G. Miller, William P. Munday, William H. Nichols, Jr. and Ben S. Wood, III.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JAMES F. GORDON, Senior District Judge.

This action is the product of competition between two rival cable television corporations to obtain a non-exclusive franchise to provide cable television service to the citizens of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. On December 15, 1981, the Hopkinsville City Council voted to award a cable television franchise to defendant Pennyroyal Cablevision, Inc. (hereinafter, Pennyroyal), and deny the application...

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