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TALLAHASSEE BRANCH OF THE NAACP v. F.C.C.

Nos. 88-1331, 88-1332.

870 F.2d 704 (1989)

TALLAHASSEE BRANCH OF THE NAACP and the National Black Media Coalition, Appellants, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee, Holt-Robinson Television, Inc., Intervenor. LOUISIANA STATE CONFERENCE OF BRANCHES OF THE NAACP, et al., Appellants, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee, Louisiana Educational Television Authority, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grover G. Hankins, Kansas City, Mo., of the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom David Honig was on the brief, for appellants.

David Silberman, Counsel, with whom Diane S. Killory, Gen. Counsel, and Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

M. Scott Johnson and Lynn M. Clancy, Washington, D.C., entered an appearance for intervenor in No. 88-1331.

Steven C. Schaffer, Washington, D.C., entered an appearance for intervenor in No. 88-1332.

Before WALD, Chief Judge, MIKVA, Circuit Judge, and REVERCOMB, District Judge.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

These two cases present challenges to the refusal of the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") to conduct investigations or hold evidentiary hearings on appellants' complaints that two licensees violated the FCC's Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") rules, 47 C.F.R. § 73.2080 (1987), before granting television license renewals. See Arkansas Educational Television...

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