United States DC Circuit

The character qualification provision of the Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000, making ineligible for a certain radio license anyone who engaged in unlicensed operation of a station under the Communications Act of 1934, is constitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/31/2003
• Published 01/31/2003

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and EDWARDS, SENTELLE, HENDERSON, RANDOLPH, ROGERS, TATEL, and GARLAND, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert T. Perry argued the cause for petitioner.   With him on the briefs was Barbara J. Olshansky.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jacob M. Lewis, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for respondents.   With him on the brief were Robert S. Greenspan and Mark S. Davies, Attorneys, and Jane E. Mago, General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, and C. Grey Pash, Jr., Counsel.