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CARLIN COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. F.C.C.

Nos. 270, 295, Dockets 84-4086, 84-6202.

749 F.2d 113 (1984)

CARLIN COMMUNICATIONS, INC., and Drake Publisher, Inc., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Respondent. CARLIN COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Car-Bon Publishers, Inc., and Drake Publisher, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William French SMITH, as Attorney General of the United States, and Federal Communications Commission, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan L. Rosner, New York City (Lawrence E. Abelman, Peter J. Lynfield, Marianne F. Murray, Abelman Frayne Rezac & Schwab, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Bruce E. Fein, Gen. Counsel, F.C.C., Washington, D.C. (Daniel M. Armstrong, Sue Ann Preskill, Sharon Kelley, Steve Kaminer, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

John Messenger, Washington, D.C. (Saul Fisher, Melvin A. Cohen, White Plains, N.Y., of counsel), for intervenors N.Y. Telephone Co. and New England Telephone Co.

Judith A. Maynes, G. Daniel McCarthy, New York City, for intervenor American Tel. & Tel. Co.

George Shapiro, James P. Mercurio, Gerald E. Oberst, Jr., Arent, Fox Kintner & Kahn, Washington, D.C., John S. Redpath, Jr., Harold Akselrad, New York City, Henry J. Gerken, Daniel J. Danser, Englewood, Colo., for amici curiae Home Box Office, Inc. and American Television and Communications Corp.

John J. Walsh, Brooklyn, N.Y., for amicus curiae Morality in Media, Inc.

Before OAKES, KEARSE, and PRATT, Circuit Judges.

OAKES, Circuit Judge.

Carlin Communications, Inc. provides a telephone "service," colloquially called "dial-a-porn," to local and long distance callers at ordinary rates. The callers hear prerecorded messages, which change several times daily as in the case of weather or sports results, describing actual or simulated sexual activity apparently in explicit terms. A dial-it service can receive up to 50,000 calls per hour to an individual number, and, rather incredibly...

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