PLAYERS INTERN., INC. v. U.S.

No. CIV. A. 96-4911.

988 F.Supp. 497 (1997)

PLAYERS INTERNATIONAL, INC., Players Lake Charles, LLC, Players Star Partnership, Southern Illinois Riverboat/Casino Cruises, Inc., National Association of Broadcasters, Texas Association of Broadcasters, New Jersey Broadcasters Association, Mississippi Association of Broadcasters, Louisiana Association of Broadcasters, Missouri Broadcasters Association, West Virginia Broadcasters Association, Massachusetts Broadcasters Association, Inc., New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters, Inc., Illinois Broadcasters Association, H & D Broadcasting Limited Partnership, Raritan Valley Broadcasting Co., Inc., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America and Federal Communications Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

December 19, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Soifer, Deborah Mason, Horn, Goldberg, Gorny, Plackter & Weiss, Atlantic City, NJ, W. Randolph Teslik, P.C., Tom W. Davidson, P.C., Todd S. Babbitz, Phuong N. Pham, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Elizabeth J. Shapiro, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Louis J. Bizzarri, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of United States Attorney, Camden, NJ, for Defendants.


AMENDED OPINION

RODRIGUEZ, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on defendants' motion for summary judgment and plaintiffs' cross motion for summary judgment on Count I (alleging First Amendment violations) and Count II (alleging equal protection violations under the Fifth Amendment) of its complaint. Plaintiffs are a casino developer/operator and its wholly owned subsidiaries, a national association of broadcast licensees, nine state associations...

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