LIBERTY CABLE CO., INC. v. CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 2034, Docket 95-6041.

60 F.3d 961 (1995)

LIBERTY CABLE COMPANY, INC.; Sixty Sutton Corp.; Jack A. Veerman, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF NEW YORK; Ralph A. Balzano, Commissioner of Department of Information and Telecommunications, NYS Commission on Cable Television, William B. Finneran, Gerard D. DiMarco, Barbara T. Rochman, David F. Wilbur, and John Passidomo, Defendants-Appellees, UNITED STATES of America, Time Warner Cable of New York City and Paragon Cable Manhattan, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 12, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd Constantine, New York City (Robert Begleiter, Leslie F. Spasser, Eliot Spitzer, Constantine & Partners, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant Liberty Cable Co., Inc.

W. James MacNaughton, Woodbridge, NJ, submitted a brief for defendants-appellants Sixty Sutton Corp. and Veerman.

Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy, New York City (Paul A. Crotty, Corp. Counsel of City of N.Y., Kristin M. Helmers, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees City of N.Y. and Balzano.

Marilyn T. Trautfield, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Dennis C. Vacco, Atty. Gen., Jeanne Lahiff, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendants-appellees N.Y.S. Comm'n on Cable Television, Finneran, Di Marco, Rochman, Wilbur, and Passidomo.

Kathy S. Marks, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City (Mary Jo White, U.S. Atty., Steven M. Haber, Asst. U.S. Atty., William E. Kennard, Gen. Counsel, Fed. Commun. Comm'n, Washington, DC, on the brief), for defendant-intervenor-appellee U.S.A.

Rowan D. Wilson, New York City (Stuart W. Gold, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, Martin J. Schwartz, Richard G. Primoff, Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman, New York, NY, on the brief), for defendants-intervenors-appellees Time Warner Cable of N.Y.C., and Paragon Cable Manhattan.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, LUMBARD and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

This appeal by a television cable company from the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction primarily concerns the extent of governmental obligations to develop franchising regulations for activities required to be licensed. Plaintiffs-appellants Liberty Cable Company, Inc. ("Liberty"), Sixty Sutton Corporation, and Jack A. Veerman appeal from the March 14, 1995, order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York ...

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