Challenge to Cross Ownership Rule Will Stay Where it Is

The challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule change will remain in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, at least for now.


A couple of dozen appeals were filed against the rule change in numerous courts, but the Ninth Circuit won the lottery -- literally -- to hear the case.
The Newspaper Association of America, for one, petitioned the D.C. Circuit Court in Washington, D.C., to assert its jurisdiction over the appeal, since it is the court of appeals for disputed FCC decisions. John Sturm, president of the association, called the decision "fairly routine," and added "we will still be able to make all our agruments about the jurisiction of the D.C.Court of appeals."

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