Federal Communications Commission v. WJR, Goodwill Station, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that due process does not require oral argument, and written submissions may be sufficient
• explaining that the opportunity to orally argue a matter before a court is a matter of procedural due process and that whether to grant oral argument “varies from case to case in accordance with differing circumstances, as do other procedural regulations”
• Congress left largely to the FCC’s “judgment the determination of the manner of conducting its business”
• “Certainly the Constitution does not require oral argument in all eases where only insubstantial or frivolous questions of law, or indeed even substantial ones, are raised.”
• “Certainly the Constitution does not require oral argument in all cases where only insubstantial or frivolous questions of law, or indeed even substantial ones, are raised.”
• “[D]ue process does not include the right to oral argument on a motion[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).