Litigation
Nov. 28, 2012
FCC granted en banc hearing in ads case
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week granted the Federal Communications Commission an en banc rehearing of its decision to overturn a federal ban on political advertising on public TV and radio stations.
By Jean Yung
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week granted the Federal Communications Commission an en banc rehearing of its decision to overturn a federal ban on political advertising on public TV and radio stations. In April, a divided three-judge panel said the FCC's barring public broadcasting stations from running political ads violated the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. The court, however, upheld a ban on ads for for-...
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