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Friday, January 23, 2015

Entertainment & Sports Law

Weekly Summaries Distributed January 23, 2015
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Mary V. Harris Found. v. Fed. Commc'n Comm'n

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitDocket: 13-1304Opinion Date: January 20, 2015
Areas of Law: Communications Law, Entertainment & Sports Law, Government & Administrative Law
MVH and Holy Family Communications each applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a license to operate a noncommercial educational radio station in the vicinity of Buffalo, New York. To do so, the agency used its comparative selection criteria, which it had promulgated through a notice-and-comment rulemaking. By application of those criteria, the Commission found Holy Family had the superior application and awarded it the license. The D.C. Circuit affirmed, rejecting an argument that the criterion upon which the outcome turned--the weight given to an applicant’s plan to broadcast to underserved populations-- either violated the Communications Act of 1934, which requires the Commission to distribute licenses fairly, or was arbitrary and capricious. That criterion is part of a reasonable framework for achieving goals consistent with the Commission’s statutory mandate, and because MVH offered no support for a waiver except that it came close to the threshold it needed to get the license.
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