JAMES CABLE v. CITY OF JAMESTOWN, TENN.

No. 2:92-0084.

822 F.Supp. 476 (1993)

JAMES CABLE PARTNERS, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership doing business as Big South Fork Cablevision v. The CITY OF JAMESTOWN, TENNESSEE, being represented by its Mayor, Stoney C. Duncan, and its aldermen, Bob Bow, Mark Choate, Gary Huff, Harold Whitehead, and Donald Crockett.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

April 7, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest A. Petroff and T. Leslie Dooley, of Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf, Huntsville, TN, Burt A. Braverman, Cole, Raywid & Braverman, Attys., Washington, DC, for plaintiff.

Michael Anthony Walker, Jamestown, TN, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

MORTON, Senior District Judge.

The plaintiff, James Cable Partners ("James Cable"), filed this suit for a declaration of its rights and to enjoin the defendant City of Jamestown, Tennessee ("Jamestown") from operating a competing cable service within the City of Jamestown. James Cable alleges that the defendant City of Jamestown granted it a twenty-five year exclusive franchise. Jamestown counters that section 7(a) of the 1992 Cable Act...

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