Media Ownership Review

The Supreme Court Overturns Third Circuit on Media Ownership Rules

By Frank Montero|2021-04-01T17:33:44-05:00April 1st, 2021|Legal News|

On Thursday, April 1, 2021 the Supreme Court unanimously voted to overturn the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia (“Third Circuit”) in the case of Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) v. Prometheus Radio Project, No. 19-1231. The possibility of this result was something we had considered in a previous post, which...… Continue Reading

Gaming Out the Supreme Court’s Media Ownership Review

By Dan Kirkpatrick|2020-10-08T13:19:51-05:00October 8th, 2020|Legal News|

As we reported last week, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or the “Commission”) and the National Association of Broadcasters (“NAB”) of a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that overturned a 2017 decision by the FCC attempting to relax...… Continue Reading