Sue Harris DeBAUCHE, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Eugene TRANI; Lawrence Douglas Wilder; Clear Channel Radio, Incorporated, t/a WRVA, a Nevada Corporation; Central Virginia Educational Telecommunications Corporation, t/a WNVT, Defendants-Appellees, and
Virginia Commonwealth University, Defendant.
ACLU Foundation of Virginia, Amicus Curiae.
Sue Harris DeBauche, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Lawrence Douglas Wilder; Clear Channel Radio, Incorporated, t/a WRVA, a Nevada Corporation; Central Virginia Educational Telecommunications Corporation, t/a WNVT, Defendants-Appellees, and
Virginia Commonwealth University; Eugene Trani, Defendants.
ACLU Foundation of Virginia, Amicus Curiae.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: March 3, 1999.
Decided: September 15, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: James Jeffrey Knicely, Knicely & Cotorceanu, P.C., Williamsburg, Virginia, for Appellant. Alison Paige Landry, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia; John Samuel Martin, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia; Andrew Gray Mauck, Mays & Valentine, L.L.P., Richmond, Virginia; Lawrence Douglas Wilder, Jr., Wilder & Gregory, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Thomas Stephen Neuberger, Thomas S. Neuberger, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; John W. Whitehead, Stephen H. Aden, The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellant. Mark L. Earley, Attorney General of Virginia, Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Ronald C. Forehand, Senior Assistant Attorney General, William E. Thro, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant Trani. R. Hewitt Pate, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia; Robert L. Brooke, Mays & Valentine, L.L.P., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees WNVT and WRVA. Roger L. Gregory, Laura M. Hillenbrand, Wilder & Gregory, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee Wilder. Randal M. Shaheen, Christopher F. Winters, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.
Before WIDENER, NIEMEYER, and KING, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
During the 1997 gubernatorial election campaign in Virginia, L. Douglas Wilder, a radio talk show host with radio station WRVA and former governor of Virginia, organized a political debate between the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor at Virginia Commonwealth University ("VCU"). The debate, dubbed "Debate Virginia," was broadcast on radio station WRVA and on television station WNVT, as well as on other stations...
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