United States Ninth Circuit

District court had subject matter jurisdiction in an action for enforcement of a FCC order, even where defendant had properly appealed the same order to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals and raised identical issues in both courts; preliminary injunction issued to enforce order was valid, and motions to dismiss and to stay were properly denied.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/06/2002
• Decided 04/22/2002
• Published 04/22/2002

Judges

• BREWSTER, Senior District Judge., Before:  ALARCON and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges, and BREWSTER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kenneth P. Jacobus, Anchorage, AL, for the defendant-appellant., Richard L. Pomeroy, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Alaska, Anchorage, AL, and Gregory M. Christopher, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellee.