A federal appeals court should deny the NAB’s motion to...
A federal appeals court should deny the NAB’s motion to stay implementation of the FCC’s online political file rules, the FCC and several public interest groups said in court filings Friday. The rules are to become effective Aug. 2. “NAB…
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is wholly unable to satisfy the stringent standards for obtaining a stay,” the FCC said. “It cannot demonstrate that it is likely to succeed on the merits of its claims, that it will suffer irreparable injury, or that the public interest supports a stay,” it said. In fact, grant of a stay would harm other parties, as well as the public interest, it said. They would “be deprived of the substantial benefits of online access to information that until now has been available only in paper form during business hours at the station’s main studio.” Free Press, the Benton Foundation, the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, the New America Foundation and the United Church of Christ also asked the court to deny NAB’s stay request.