Legal Opinion
Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Ass'n v. Federal Communications Commission
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 7, 2001No. Nos. 01-1151, 01-1271, 01-1272 and 01-1818PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Petition for review denied and judgment affirmed by published opinion. Judge MICHAEL wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Judge NIEMEYER joined.
MICHAEL, Circuit Judge.
Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service has recently joined cable and broadcast television as a major force in the market for delivering television programming to consumers. In these consolidated cases, representatives of the satellite industry raise various constitutional challenges to Congress’s efforts to regulate competition in that market through the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999 (SHVIA). Pub.L.…
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