Legal Opinion
Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1998No. 96-779PublishedCited by 489 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
A state-owned public television broadcaster sponsored a candidate debate from which it excluded an independent candidate with little popular support. The issue before us is whether, by reason of its state ownership, the station had a constitutional obligation to allow every candidate access to the debate. "We conclude that, unlike most other public television programs, the candidate debate was subject to constitutional constraints applicable to nonpublic fora under our forum precedents. Even so, the broadcaster’s decision to exclude the candidate was a reasonable, viewpoint-neutral exercise…
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