15 U.S.C. § 1801
Section 1801 · Congressional declaration of policy
This is the Newspaper Preservation Act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 23 court decisions — leading case Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Democratic National Committee (1973)
Most recently applied in 509 F. App'x 607 - Benny Enriquez, Jr. v. Aurora Loan Services, Llc (February 2013)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In the public interest of maintaining a newspaper press editorially and reportorially independent and competitive in all parts of the United States, it is hereby declared to be the public policy of the United States to preserve the publication of newspapers in any city, community, or metropolitan area where a joint operating arrangement has been heretofore entered into because of economic distress or is hereafter effected in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Short Title
Section 1 of Pub. L. 91 353 provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Newspaper Preservation Act’.”
Separability
Section 6 of Pub. L. 91 353 provided that: “If any provision of this Act [enacting this chapter] is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this Act, and the applicability of such provision to any other person or circumstance, shall not be affected thereby.”