Colonial Broadcasters, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

The main question on this appeal is whether the Commission acted unlawfully in failing to consider and decide appellant's, application, contemporaneously and on a comparative basis, with the application of Arthur Lucas, which had been filed and set for hearing prior to the filing of appellant’s application.

The chronology of proceedings before the Commission follows: Arthur Lucas applied March 29, 1937, for a permit to erect a new local broadcast station at Savannah, Georgia. On May 12, 1937, the Commission designated the application for hearing before an examiner on July 6. On June 24…