Federal Communications Commission v. WJR, Goodwill Station, Inc.

deliveréd the opinion of the Court.

Most broadly stated, the important question presented by this case is the extent to which due process of law, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, Requires federal administrative tribunals to accord the right of oral argument to one claiming to be adversely affected by their action, more particularly upon questions of law. Lest this spacious form of statement bé taken as too sweeping and abstract to pose a justiciable issue, we think the specific context of fact and decisión out of which the question has arisen must be set forth. But before this is done we…