Religious Broadcaster Challenges EEO Order in 9th Circuit
Religious radio broadcaster theDove Media filed a petition for review against the FCC’s February equal employment opportunity order in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to court documents and a news release from Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), which…
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represents theDove and owner Perry Atkinson. The EEO order was also challenged in filings in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and at the FCC (see 2405130041). The PLF release says the EEO order puts theDove at risk of being sued by third parties over “perceived disparities in the race or gender makeup of their workforce” and is outside the FCC’s authority. “The Constitution gives Congress alone the power to make laws and, therefore, Congress cannot give that power away to agencies,” PLF Senior Attorney Oliver Dunford said in the release. “Nor can these agencies accomplish indirectly what they are precluded from doing directly.”