Legal Opinion
Muir v. Alabama Educational Television Commission
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 15, 1982No. Nos. 80-7546, 81-2011PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:
I. Introduction
The two appeals before this Court on consolidated rehearing raise the important and novel question of whether individual viewers of public television stations, licensed by the Fedéral Communications Commission to state instrumentalities, have a First Amendment right to compel the licensees to broadcast a previously scheduled program which the licensees have decided to cancel. For the reasons stated below we find that the viewers do not have such a right.
Both cases before us concern the decisions of the licensees not to broadcast the program “Death…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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- Stone v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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