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AMERICAN LEGAL FOUNDATION v. F.C.C.

No. 85-1696.

808 F.2d 84 (1987)

AMERICAN LEGAL FOUNDATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION and the United States of America, Respondents, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. McDonald, Muskegon, Mich., for petitioner.

C. Grey Pash, Jr., Counsel, F.C.C., with whom Jack D. Smith, Gen. Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Gerald M. Goldstein, Counsel, F.C.C., John J. Powers, III and Marion L. Jetton, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for respondents.

Andrea Limmer, Washington, D.C., entered an appearance for respondents.

J. Roger Wollenberg, with whom Joel Rosenbloom and Murray A. Indick, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for intervenor.

Douglas S. Land, James A. McKenna, Jr., and Robert W. Coll, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenor.

Before STARR and BUCKLEY, Circuit Judges, and PARSONS, Senior District Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STARR.

STARR, Circuit Judge:

We have before us a petition for review by the American Legal Foundation ("ALF"). ALF challenges a decision by the Federal Communications Commission not to initiate an investigation of the Foundation's administrative complaint, which charged the American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. with news distortion, news suppression, and violation of the fairness doctrine in a series of nationally...

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