Legal Opinion
Schurz Communications, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 16, 1993No. 91-2350, 91-1484, 92-1117, 91-2855, 91-2598, 91-2684, 91-2597, 92-1120, and 91-2883PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPosner, Circuit Judge
(in chambers).
In Schurz Communications, Inc. v. FCC, 982 F.2d 1043 (7th Cir.1992), familiarity with which is assumed, a panel of which I was a member invalidated the new financial interest and syndication rules that the FCC had adopted in 1991, supplanting the original rules that had been promulgated in 1970. After the panel decision was rendered, counsel for outside producers and independent stations asked me to disqualify myself on the basis of 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), which requires disqualification if the judge’s “impartiality might reasonably be questioned,” and section 455(b), which so far…
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