Glendora v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Plaintiff alleges that as of February 1, 1996, defendants plan to cease their current practice of broadcasting public access programming on Channel 8 simultaneously in each municipality for which defendants provide cable service. Instead, each municipality will determine at what time and on what channel public access programming will be viewed.... We have serious questions about the likelihood that she will succeed on the merits of her claims. Defendants contend that the applicable state and federal regulations require them to provide at least one public access channel per franchise area. See 47 U.S.C. § 531 ; N.Y.Exec.Law, tit. 28, § 815(b) 9 N.Y.C.R.R. § 595.4 (emphasis added). Defendants contend that the contemplated restructuring of public access programming will meet this standard because each franchise area, i.e., each municipality, will continue to provide at least one public access channel. ■ Plaintiff was not able to provide the court with a convincing argument to the contrary.... [W]e have some doubts as to whether plaintiff has demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm if we do not grant the requested relief. While irreparable harm usually results when the First Amendment is violated, we are not persuaded that plaintiff’s First Amendment rights are implicated in this case. She is not alleging that she is being prevented from speaking, or even that she is being prevented from speaking on public access television. Instead, she asserts that the restructured public”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 947 F. Supp. 707 - Glendora v. Marshall