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IN RE MONROE COMMUNICATIONS CORP.

No. 87-1152.

840 F.2d 942 (1988)

In re MONROE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, Petitioner.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 4, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Cole, with whom Gene A. Bechtel, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for petitioner.

Sue Ann Preskill, Counsel, F.C.C., with whom Diane S. Killory, General Counsel, and Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate General Counsel, F.C.C., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for respondent.

Before STARR and SILBERMAN, Circuit Judges, and HAROLD H. GREENE, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SILBERMAN.

SILBERMAN, Circuit Judge:

Monroe Communications Corporation petitions this court to issue a writ of mandamus directing the Federal Communications Commission to act on certain matters relating to a comparative license renewal hearing to which Monroe is a party. The writ of mandamus is available only in exceptional circumstances, and we hold the delay at issue here is not so great as to justify that response...

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