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TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH AND ACTION v. F.C.C.

No. 85-1454.

800 F.2d 1181 (1986)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and the United States of America, Respondents, American Legal Foundation, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 5, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip K. Howard with whom Andrew Jay Schwartzman and David W. Danner were on brief, for petitioner.

Gregory M. Christopher, Counsel, F.C.C., for respondents. Jack D. Smith, Gen. Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, C. Grey Pash, Jr., Counsel, F.C.C., John J. Powers, III and Marion L. Jetton, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for respondents.

Michael P. McDonald was on brief for intervenor, American Legal Foundation.

Before WALD, Chief Judge, ROBINSON, Circuit Judge, and RE, Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade.

Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge RE.

RE, Chief Judge:

On this petition for review, petitioner, Telecommunications Research and Action Center (TRAC), challenges an order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which eliminated six broadcast regulatory policies. Petitioner contends that the FCC's order should be reversed because (1) it abandoned the FCC's congressional mandate to serve the public interest when the order eliminated the broadcast...

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