Documents in a suit against the FCC over its media ownership orde...
Documents in a suit against the FCC over its media ownership order were moved to the 9th U.S. Appeals Court in San Francisco, in a Thursday order by the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit. On…
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Newspaper Association of America v. FCC, the D.C. Circuit said motions to unconsolidate challenges to the partial lifting of a ban on common ownership of a paper and radio or TV station in the same market aren’t overridden by the possibility of exclusive jurisdiction. The appeal of cross-ownership rules will stay at the 9th Circuit (CD March 12 p13) at least for now, said Media Access Project President Andrew Schwartzman, a participant in the case. Once the 9th Circuit gets other courts’ paperwork on the case, some being sent by the D.C. Circuit, it will decide whether to keep the case or send all or part of it back to D.C. or the 3rd U.S. Appeals Court in Philadelphia, he added.