Legal Opinion
Shurberg Broadcasting of Hartford, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Astroline Communications Co., Intervenor
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 16, 1989No. 84-1600PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion PER CURIAM.
Separate Opinions filed by Circuit Judge SILBERMAN and Senior Circuit Judge MacKINNON.
Dissenting Opinion filed by Chief Judge WALD.
2Per curiam
The opinions by Judges Silberman and MacKinnon in some respects differ in analysis. However, both conclude that the FCC’s minority distress sale program unconstitutionally deprives Alan Shurberg and Shurberg Broadcasting of their equal protection rights under the Fifth Amendment because the program is not narrowly tailored to remedy past discrimination or to promote programming diversity. Specifically, the program unduly burdens Shur-berg, an…
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