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GALLOWAY v. F.C.C.

No. 84-1346.

778 F.2d 16 (1985)

Carl GALLOWAY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and United States of America, Respondents, CBS, Inc., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 6, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Hemenway, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

C. Grey Pash, Counsel, F.C.C., with whom J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jack D. Smith, Gen. Counsel, and Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, F.C.C., and John G. Powers, III and Margaret G. Halpern, Attys. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for respondents.

J. Roger Wollenberg, with whom Joel Rosenbloom, Neal T. Kilminster, and John W. Zucker, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for intervenor.

Before J. SKELLY WRIGHT, MIKVA and FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge J. SKELLY WRIGHT.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Carl Galloway, who was mentioned during a CBS News broadcast about insurance fraud, complained to the Federal Communications Commission that the broadcast had violated both the Commission's Personal Attack rule and its policy against deliberate news distortion. Petitioner asked the Commission to revoke the licenses of intervenor CBS's owned-and-operated...

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