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Comcast Goes to Court Over Tennis Ruling

By: By MCN Staff Aug 6 2012 - 4:01am

Comcast wasted no time challenging the FCC’s decision to uphold the Tennis Channel carriage complaint.

Comcast last Monday (July 30) asked the commission to stay enforcement of its July 24 vote pending the outcome of its court appeal, which it officially filed two days later

Without that FCC stay, which the commission is unlikely to grant if past is prologue, Comcast will have to take steps to true up tier placement of Tennis Channel, Golf Channel and NBC Sports Network by early September (the FCC gave it 45 days).

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Scalia: TV Would 'Miseducate' People About Supreme Court

By: John Eggerton Jul 26 2012 - 4:19pm

Justice Remains Opposed to Televising Oral Arguments

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Supreme Court Appeal Denial Is Time Warner Cable Victory

By: John Eggerton Jun 18 2012 - 3:39pm

Court Won't Hear Appeal of Decision That Texas Law Discriminated Against Incumbent Cable Ops.

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Supreme Court Says FCC Indecency Policy Was Too Vague

By: John Eggerton Jun 21 2012 - 4:33pm

Sets Aside FCC's Fox, ABC Indecency Findings, But Doesn't Rule on Constitutionality of Underlying Policy

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Cable Firms’ Win in Texas Sealed By Supreme Court

By: By John Eggerton Jun 25 2012 - 4:01am

Washington — In a victory for the Texas Cable Association
and the nation’s second-largest cable company, a
federal appeals court ruling that Texas’s franchising law
unconstitutionally discriminated against Time Warner
Cable and other incumbents will stand after the nation’s
highest court declined to hear an appeal.

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Supreme Court To Hear Comcast Appeal of Class-Action Decision

By: John Eggerton Jun 25 2012 - 3:32pm

The Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear Comcast's appeal of a Third Circuit decision that sufficient grounds had been established to create a "class" in the class action suit against the nation's largest cable operator by some subscribers.

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FCC Asks Court to Delay USF Challenge

By: John Eggerton Jun 25 2012 - 9:54pm

Commission Says It Could Narrow, Resolve Issues through Petition to Deny Process

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Verizon, MetroPCS Tell Court: FCC Net-Neutrality Rules Are Illegal

By: By John Eggerton Jul 9 2012 - 4:01am

Washington — Telcos Verizon Communications and
MetroPCS last week teed up three key questions in their
court challenge of the Federal Communications Commission’s
network-neutrality rules, and then immediately
answered them.

The questions: (1) whether the FCC exceeded its authority
in a December 2010 order codifying its networkopenness
guidelines with common-carrier regulations;
(2) whether the order was unconstitutional; and (3)
whether it was arbitrary and capricious.

Their answers: (1) Yes; (2) yes; and (3) yes.

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Court Upholds FCC Move of USF Funds to Broadband

By: John Eggerton Jul 13 2012 - 5:11pm

FCC Chair: It Paves Way for Billions in Investment Without Boosting Contributions from Consumers, Businesses

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NAB to Court: FCC Fails to See Serious Harm in Online Posting

By: By John Eggerton Jul 24 2012 - 10:17pm

Pushes Federal Court to Stay Rule Enforcement

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