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

No. 94 Civ. 8886 (LAP).

893 F.Supp. 191 (1995)

LIBERTY CABLE COMPANY, INC., Sixty Sutton Corp. and Jack A. Veerman, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK and Ralph A. Balzano, Commissioner of Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, The New York State Commission on Cable Television, William B. Finneran, Gerard D. Di Marco, Barbara T. Rochman, David F. Wilbur, and John Passidomo, Defendants, The United States of America, Time Warner Cable of New York City and Paragon Cable Manhattan, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 13, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Begleiter, Lloyd Constantine, Leslie F. Spasser, Eliot Spitzer, Constantine & Partners, New York City, for plaintiff Liberty Cable Co., Inc.

W. James MacNaughton, Woodbridge, NJ, for plaintiffs Sixty Sutton Corp. and Jack A. Veerman.

Paul A. Crotty, Corp. Counsel of the City of New York by Lewis S. Finkelman, Daniel J. Struck, New York City, for defendants The City of New York and Ralph A. Balzano.

Dennis C. Vacco, Atty. Gen. of State of New York by Marilyn T. Trautfield, Jeanne Lahiff, New York City, for defendants The New York State Com'n on Cable Television, William B. Finneran, Gerard D. Di Marco, Barbara T. Rochman, David F. Wilbur, and John Passidomo.

Mary Jo White, U.S. Atty. by Kathy S. Marks, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York City, for defendant-intervenor The U.S.

Martin J. Schwartz, Richard G. Primoff, Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman and Stuart W. Gold, Rowan D. Wilson, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for defendants-intervenors Time Warner Cable of New York City and Paragon Cable Manhattan.


OPINION

PRESKA, District Judge:

Plaintiffs Liberty Cable Co., Inc. ("Liberty"), Sixty Sutton Corp. ("Sixty Sutton"), and Jack A. Veerman seek, inter alia, a declaratory judgment that 47 U.S.C. §§ 522(7) and 541(b) are unconstitutional. Before me now is their motion for a preliminary injunction against agencies and officials of New York State (the "State") and the City of New York (the "City") and defendants' motion to dismiss the...

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