The venue for court challenges against the FCC’s...
The venue for court challenges against the FCC’s recent crackdown on sharing arrangements shouldn’t be changed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NAB said in a filing in the D.C. Circuit, where the cases now are located. Public…
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interest challengers Prometheus Radio Project asked for the change in venue because the 3rd Circuit has been the venue for previous proceedings on FCC ownership rules. Those issues “should not be the tail that wags the dog of venue,” NAB said in a motion filed Thursday in docket 14-1090. Transfer could “set a perilous precedent,” giving a single circuit “a virtual monopoly over review of any future agency proceeding” NAB said. Moving the case would also be physically inconvenient, NAB said. “The gravitational center of this dispute is in this Circuit."