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Legal Citation: 518 U.S. 727 (1996)

Petitioner
Denver Area Educational Consortium, et al.

Respondent
Federal Communications Commission, et al.

Petitioner's Claim
That various regulations implementing the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act, which regulated indecent and obscene programming on cable television, violated the free speech rights of cable access programmers and cable television viewers under the First Amendment.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
I. Michael Greenberger

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Lawrence G. Wallace

Justices for the Court
Stephen Breyer (writing for the Court), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony M. Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, David H. Souter, John Paul Stevens

Justices Dissenting
William H. Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas

Place
Washington,...