Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the Association of Public Television Stations, National Public Radio, Inc., et al.
Amici Curiae
Robert A. Long, Jr., Counsel of Record Public Broadcasting Service,the Association of Public Television Stations, and National Public Radio, Inc.are joined in this brief by 15 public broadcasting stations and affiliatedorganizations. Robert A. Long, Jr. is a partner with the law firm Covington& Burling. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 8, 2008. For generations, Congress and the American people haverelied on the Nation’s public broadcasters to provide programming that “address[es]issues of national concern and solves local problems, 47 U.S. Code Section396(a)(8). Congress thus encouraged…
