DANIELS CABLEVISION, INC. v. U.S.

Civ.A. Nos. 92-2292, 92-2494 and 92-2558.

835 F.Supp. 1 (1993)

DANIELS CABLEVISION, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, L.P., Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, et al., Defendants. DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

September 16, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Pope Cole, Jr., Cole, Raywid & Braverman, Washington, DC, for Daniels Cablevision, Inc.

Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Amedia Access Project, Washington, DC, for Consumer Federation of America, National Council of Senior Citizens, International Ass'n of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, Office of the United Church of Christ.

Mark Henry Lynch, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for Association of America's Public Television Stations, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Roy F. Perkins, Jr., Herndon, VA, for Triplett & Associates, Inc.

Robert T. Perry, Brooklyn, NY, for Paging Associates, Inc., International Television Broadcasting, Inc., Sandra Engle, TV 58 St. Louis, Inc., Morningstar Communications, Zantech, Inc., International Broadcasting Network, Sherjan Broadcasting Co., Inc.

Theodore Case Whitehouse, Brian Conboy, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, Washington, DC, Robert D. Joffe, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for Time Warner Entertainment Co., L.P.

James Edwin Meyers, Baraff, Koerner, Olender & Hochberg, Washington, DC, for Encore Media Corp.

Paul J. Sinderbrand, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Washington, DC, for Wireless Cable Association Intern., Inc.

Allan Abbot Tuttle, Patton, Boggs & Blow, Washington, DC, for Discovery Communications, Inc., The Learning Channel, Inc.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JACKSON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in these three lawsuits present facial constitutional challenges to eleven provisions of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, Pub.L. No. 102-385, 106 Stat. 1460, and to two provisions of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, Pub.L. No. 98-549, 98 Stat. 2780 ("the Cable Act" or "Acts"), contending that, for sundry reasons, these provisions infringe upon their...

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