TIME WARNER CABLE OF NEW YORK CITY, A DIVISION OF TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, L.P.; Paragon Communications, d/b/a Time Warner Cable of New York City; Queens Inner Unity Cable Systems, d/b/a Quics, and TWC Cable Partners, d/b/a Staten Island Cable, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
BLOOMBERG L.P., Defendant-Intervenor-Appellant,
City of New York, Defendant-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued February 19, 1997.
Decided July 3, 1997.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Elizabeth I. Freedman, New York City (Paul A. Crotty, N.Y. City Corporation Counsel, Leonard Koerner, Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy, Office of the N.Y. City Corporation Counsel, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.
Martin Garbus, New York City (Maura J. Wogan, Edward H. Rosenthal, Edward Hernstadt, Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-intervenor-appellant.
Stuart W. Gold, New York City (Robert D. Joffe, Rory O. Millson, Rowan D. Wilson, Julie A. North, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.
(James N. Horwood, Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, DC; Jeffrey S. Hops, Washington, DC, submitted a brief for amicus curiae Alliance for Community Media).
(Floyd Abrams, Landis C. Best, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, submitted a brief for amici curiae Mark Green, Ruth Messinger, and Fernando Ferrer).
(Arthur H. Harding, R. Bruce Beckner, Jill Kleppe McClelland, Fleischman and Walsh, Washington, DC, submitted a brief for amicus curiae National Cable Television Association, Inc.).
(Arthur N. Eisenberg, New York City, submitted a brief for amicus curiae New York Civil Liberties Union).
(Clifford Thau, Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld, New York City; Yosef J. Riemer, Kirkland & Ellis, New York City; Richard Cordray, Paul D. Clement, Eric R. Claeys, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, submitted a brief for amicus curiae Fox News Network).
(Robert T. Perry, Thomas J. Sinnickson, Brooklyn, NY, submitted a brief for amicus curiae Media Access New York).
(Yvonne S. Quinn, Jacqueline Bryks, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, submitted a brief for amicus curiae Cablevision of New York City).
Before: NEWMAN, KEARSE and FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the use of channels on a cable television system. The ultimate issue is whether a cable system operator may prevent a city from placing on channels reserved to the city for educational or governmental purposes a 24-hour general news service and a 24-hour business news service, both produced by commercial television programmers. The issue arises on an appeal from the November 6, 1996, order of the United States District...
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