United States Seventh Circuit

A contract between plaintiff-City and cable TV operators, requiring them to pay 5% of their gross revenues for any service, is not preempted by 47 U.S.C. section 542(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2004
• Published 10/01/2004

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, MANION, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Benna R. Solomom (argued), Jane E. Notz, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Michael S. Schooler, National Cable Television Asso., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles A. Rohe, Swidler BerlinShereff Friedman, Washington, DC, D. Craig Martin, Kalamazoo, MI, Robert G. Scott (argued), Cole, Raywid & Braverman, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.