No argument date set. Schenck v. Pro-Choice Network, No. No date set for arguments. Turner Broadcasting v. FCC, No. Cable operators say a 1992 law requiring cable-television systems to carry the signals of local broadcast stations violates their editorial freedom and freedom of expression.
Broadcasters say the rules are needed to protect small stations from extinction.
No date set for oral argument. U.S. v. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia, No. The Clinton Administration is defending a provision of the 1984 Cable Communications Policy Act which bars telephone companies from providing cable-television services to their subscribers. A lower court declared that the law violated the phone companies' First Amendment right of free expression. Remanded to lower court on February 27.