Challenges to a 2008 FCC media ownership order were shuffled from...
Challenges to a 2008 FCC media ownership order were shuffled from the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco to the 3rd U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. A Tuesday order in Media Alliance vs. FCC by 9th…
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Circuit Judges Ronald Gould, Richard Tallman and Stephen Trott granted a motion to transfer the cases to the Philadelphia court. They denied broadcaster motions to transfer the cases to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. That won’t end “procedural wrangling” over which court should hear challenges to FCC lifting of some restrictions on owning a newspaper and radio or TV station in the same city, said Media Access Project President Andrew Schwartzman, a party in one of the cases. The Philadelphia court in 2004 remanded the FCC’s most recent media ownership rule change and will hear challenges to the new rule, as public interest groups want, said Schwartzman, representing Prometheus Radio Project.