Anti-Takeover Groups to Appeal Media Ownership Recon Order, Want It Combined With Current QR Challenge
Groups opposing media takeovers will petition for review of the reconsideration order of FCC media ownership rules (see 1711160054) shortly after it's published in the Federal Register, said Georgetown University’s Institute for Public Representation on behalf of Prometheus Radio Project…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
If your job depends on informed compliance, you need International Trade Today. Delivered every business day and available any time online, only International Trade Today helps you stay current on the increasingly complex international trade regulatory environment.
and Media Mobilizing Project in a Monday filing (in Pacer) in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The filing, part of the appeal case against the FCC 2014 and 2010 quadrennial review order, responded to a commission request to hold the case in abeyance until after the period for appealing the recent order passed. “This request is premature,” the groups said. The groups said they intend to appeal the recon order and to ask the court to consolidate that appeal with this one. The 3rd Circuit should delay addressing the FCC’s abeyance motion until it rules on that consolidation request, the public interest groups said. The agency didn’t comment.