CABLE HOLDINGS OF GEORGIA v. McNEIL REAL ESTATE

No. 91-8032.

953 F.2d 600 (1992)

CABLE HOLDINGS OF GEORGIA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. McNEIL REAL ESTATE FUND VI, LTD., Woodsong Apartments d/b/a Lakes Apartments, Robert A. McNeil Corporation, ODC Communications Corporation, Woodsong Associates, Ltd., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 12, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney Oslin Smith, Jr., Alston & Bird, John I. Spangler, III, Joseph William Watkins, Long Weinberg Ansley & Wheeler, Benjamin Louis Weinberg, Jr., Ronald Ray Coleman, Atlanta, Ga., Mark J. Tauber, Piper & Marbury, Deborah C. Costlow, Winston & Strawn, Thomas C. Power, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellants.

Stephen Edmund O'Day, Hurt Richardson Garner Todd & Cadenhead, Terrence B. Adamson, Dow Lohnes & Albertson, Peter Crane Canfield, Atlanta, Ga., Howard Graff, Baer Marks & Upham, Neal S. Barlia, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BIRCH, Circuit Judge, TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge, and FULLAM, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

In this case we interpret Section 621(a)(2) of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, 47 U.S.C. §§ 521-559 (1988) (the "Cable Act"). Section 621(a)(2) grants cable companies which have been franchised by a governmental franchising authority a right to access "public rights-of-way" and "easements ... which have been dedicated for compatible uses." 47 U.S.C. § 541(a)(2) (1988). Below, appellee Cable Holdings of Georgia, Inc...

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