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BELLSOUTH CORP. v. U.S.

No. CV 93-B-2661-S.

868 F.Supp. 1335 (1994)

BELLSOUTH CORPORATION, Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc., d/b/a South Central Bell Telephone Company and Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., and Bellsouth Interactive Media Services, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Federal Communications Commission, and Janet Reno, in her official capacity as Attorney General of the United States of America, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division.

September 23, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atley A. Kitchings, Jr., Will M. Booker, Lange Simpson Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, AL, Roger M. Flynt, Jr., Fred A. Walters, Bellsouth Telecommunications Inc., Atlanta, GA, Michael W. McConnell, Kenneth S. Geller, H. Thomas Byron, III, Mayer Brown & Platt, Washington, DC, Walter H. Alford, John F. Beasley, William B. Barfield, Thompson T. Rawls, II, Bellsouth Corp., Atlanta, GA, for Bellsouth Corp., Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. d/b/a South Central Bell Telephone Co. and Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., Bellsouth Interactive Media Services Inc.

Herbert J. Lewis, III, Walter Braswell, Acting U.S. Atty., Birmingham, AL, Frank W. Hunger, Theodore C. Hirt, Alina S. Kofsky, U.S. Dept. of Justice—Civil Div., Washington, DC, for U.S.

Herbert J. Lewis, III, Walter Braswell, Acting U.S. Atty., Birmingham, AL, Frank W. Hunger, U.S. Dept. of Justice — Civil Div., Washington, DC, for F.C.C., Janet Reno.

Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Cooper Mitch Crawford Kuykendall & Whatley, Birmingham, AL, for Georgia Cable Television Ass'n, Tennessee Cable Television Ass'n, amici.

Edward J. Ashton, Amsouth Bank Legal Dept., Birmingham, AL, James L. Gattuso, Washington, DC, Mark R. Paoletta, O'Connor & Hannah, Washington, DC, for Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, amicus.

Catherine Wang, Gene DeJordy, Swidler & Berlin, Washington, DC, for ADC Telecommunications, Inc., amicus.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BLACKBURN, District Judge.

This case involves a challenge to certain provisions of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, 47 U.S.C. § 521-559 (1988 & Supp. IV 1992). Plaintiffs, BellSouth Corporation, BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., and BellSouth Interactive Media Services, Inc., allege that subsections (1) and (2) of 47 U.S.C. § 533(b)1 violate the Free Speech Clause of the First...

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