Legal Opinion
City of Chicago v. Federal Communications Commission
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 7, 1999No. Nos. 98-2729, 98-2901, 98-2940, 98-3064, 98-3078, 98-3079, 98-3267 & 98-3474PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Today we review a declaratory ruling of the Federal Communications Commission that Entertainment Connections, Inc. (ECI), the operator of a satellite master antenna television system (SMATV), is not a “cable operator” of a “cable system” as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 522(5) and (7) and thus is not subject to a requirement that it obtain a franchise from a local government in order to operate. In the Matter of Entertainment Connections, Inc., Motion for Declaratory Ruling, FCC 98-111, 13 FCC Rcd. 14277 (1998) (JA 418-61). After the FCC ruled in the ECI case, several *427…
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