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· 9/30/1993

Peter Branton v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, Radio-Television News Directors Association, Intervenors

Citations

  • 993 F.2d 906
  • 301 U.S. App. D.C. 244

How courts have described this case

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

  • distinguishing UCC on the grounds that it involved allegations of continuing violations
  • traceability and redressability “tend to merge . . . where the requested relief consists solely of the reversal or discontinuation of the challenged action”
  • traceability and redressability “tend to merge . . . in a case such as this where the requested relief consists solely of the reversal 10 or discontinuation of the challenged action.”
  • “A court is rightly reluctant to enter a judgment which may have no real consequence, depending upon the putative cost-benefit analyses of third parties over whom it has no jurisdiction and about whom it has almost no information.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Buckley, Williams, Ginsburg

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