Jem Broadcasting Company, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Gayla Joy Hendren, Intervenor

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• holding that the FCC’s “hard look” rules were procedural, even though they limited the ability of FCC license applicants to amend their applications
• holding that any person or entity within the class affected by the FCC’s “hard look” rules, that is, actual or potential license applicants, had standing to challenge the rules as illegally promulgated
• acknowledging that the APA statutory limitation on petitions for review are jurisdictional in nature and reflect the high value placed on finality in administrative processes
• finding that a rule dismissing incomplete applications without opportunity to amend was procedural
• disavowing the Air Transport majority’s reasoning and noting the majority is no longer binding precedent
• upholding the FCC’s adoption of “hard look” rules regarding review of broadcast license applications without public notice-and-comment as rules that “fall comfortably within the realm of the ‘procedural’”

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