Lisa C. Ballard, Executive Director of the Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct v. Quentin Ellery May, Attorney at Law, Abn 2006034

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• adopting analysis of National Association of Regulatory Utility Comm’rs v. FCC, 525 F.2d 630, 641 (D.C.Cir.)
• distinguishing impermissible regulations requiring that cable operators allow any member of the public to produce a program from permissible regulations requiring that cable operators carry local broadcast stations
• acknowledging the \circularity\ of the statutory definition and citing NARUC I with approval
• defining a common carrier as an entity that “makes a public offering to provide [communications facilities] whereby all members of the public who choose to employ such facilities may communicate or transmit intelligence of their own design and choosing”
• federal mandates \compelling cable operators indiscriminately to accept access programming will interfere with their determinations regarding the total service offering to be extended to subscribers\
• federal mandates “compelling cable operators indiscriminately to accept access programming will interfere with their determinations regarding the total service offering to be extended to subscribers”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).