The acting Solicitor Gen., on behalf of the FCC, asked for anothe...
The acting Solicitor Gen., on behalf of the FCC, asked for another extension of time to decide whether to file for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court on the media ownership rules. The FCC asked for…
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an extension to Jan. 31; otherwise the petition is due Jan. 3. The Supreme Court will likely grant the petition because its docket is already full, said Media Access Project Pres. Andrew Schwartzman. The court also routinely grants govt. extensions. At issue is a 3rd U.S. Appeals Court, Philadelphia, media ownership ruling against the Commission’s liberalized rules. In June, the appeals court remanded the FCC’s major rules for cross- ownership of newspapers and broadcasters and the concentration of broadcast ownership in local markets. Schwartzman told the FCC in an ex parte filing that it was unlikely that the Supreme court would reverse the appeals court. He told the FCC it would be better to proceed with executing the appeals court’s directives because broadcasters’ ability to conduct transactions remain frozen.