The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the NAB’s motion for a stay of the FCC’s online political file rules. The court said NAB failed to satisfy the stringent requirements for a stay pending court review. “We…
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are pleased, but not surprised, that the court cleared the way for the online public file rules to take effect on August 2,” said Corie Wright, senior policy counsel for Free Press, which was an intervenor in the case with the Benton Foundation, Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, New America Foundation and the Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ. “The NAB’s case for delay was incredibly weak, as today’s decision confirmed,” she said. A spokesman for the FCC declined to comment. The NAB is disappointed by the decision, a spokesman said: “Even though the NAB’s stay request was rejected, NAB’s court challenge to this new rule will continue and be debated on the merits. We continue to believe it is fundamentally unfair to local TV stations to be the only medium required to disclose on the Internet sensitive advertising rate information.” The FCC will demonstrate the new online public file interface at http://xrl.us/bnietj on Monday at 9 a.m. and Tuesday at 4 p.m., it said.