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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA v. F.C.C.

No. 83-6299.

798 F.2d 1255 (1986)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Pacifica Foundation, and Henry Waxman, Plaintiffs, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fredric D. Woocher, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Michael Jay Singer, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee.

Before KENNEDY and SCHROEDER, Circuit Judges, and ORRICK, Senior District Judge.

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge.

Appellants in this attorneys' fees appeal are the successful litigants in a federal court action challenging the constitutionality of 47 U.S.C. § 399(a), later styled 47 U.S.C. § 399, which regulated certain activities of noncommercial broadcasting stations. The plaintiffs filed the underlying action in federal court in 1979, and the Supreme Court in Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters...

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