MULTI-STATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 85 Civ. 9593 (CHT).

648 F.Supp. 1203 (1986)

MULTI-STATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

November 6, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keck, Mahin & Cate, Washington, D.C., Lewis J. Paper, for plaintiff Multi-State Communications, Inc.; Charles O. Blaisdell, White Plains, N.Y., of counsel.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty., S.D. N.Y., New York City, for the Government; Richard W. Mark, Asst. U.S. Atty., Sue Ann Preskill, F.C.C., of counsel.


TENNEY, District Judge.

This is an action commenced in December 1985 by Multi-State Communications, Inc. ("Multi-State") against the United States seeking a declaratory ruling pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201, 2202 that section 331 of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. § 331 (Supp.1986),1 is unconstitutional "because it is retroactive legislation which has had and continues...

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