Texas Cable Law Challenge Reinstated

TEXAS CABLE LAW CHALLENGE REINSTATED
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Kent Gibbons]
A four-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has overturned a lower court's ruling that the Texas Cable & Telecommunications Association had to demonstrate injury before contesting a statewide franchise law that excludes incumbent cable companies. [Try to say that 5 times fast.] The appeals court judges determined that the exclusion of incumbent cable operators was a direct injury, as the incumbent companies missout on an economic benefit by being unable to obtain a statewide franchise. New entrants, the appeals court said, benefited by avoiding the licensing costs of obtaining franchises with individual municipalities.
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