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Article: The Supreme Court should keep government out of cable TV channel choices.(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)(Editorial)
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- April 3, 1997
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The following editorial appeared in the Orange County Register on April 2:
Some observers claimed to be surprised at this week's U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the cable television industry, but perhaps they shouldn't have been.
The high court on Monday declined to overturn the ``must-carry'' provisions of the 1992 Cable Act, which updated and enshrined certain mandates delivered by the Federal Communications Commission as far back as the early 1970s.
The court certainly has within its power to overturn laws that go beyond Congress' enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution or to apply strict scrutiny to ...