Legal Opinion
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 31, 1997No. 95-992PublishedCited by 448 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
Sections 4 and 5 of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 require cable television systems to dedicate some of their channels to local broadcast television stations. Earlier in this case, we held the so-called “must-carry” provisions to be content-neutral restrictions on speech, subject to intermediate First Amendment scrutiny under United States v. O’Brien, 391 U. S. 367, 377 (1968). A plurality of the Court considered the record as then developed insufficient to determine whether the provisions were narrowly tailored to further important governmental…
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