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National PEG Access Policy
Halleck v. Manhattan Community Access Corporation; 2nd Circuit Feb 2018
FOR READING ONLY: The WESTLAW reprint of the holdings of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit New York City in the case of Dee Dee Halleck and Jesus Papoleto Melendez, community producers, in which Manhattan Community Access Corporation, d/b/a Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) suspended the plaintiffs from using MNN’s facilities for what MNN interpreted […]
MNN v. Halleck, Papoleto Melendez: ACM Amicus Brief
This is the Amici Curiae Brief filed by the Alliance for Community Media (ACM), the Alliance for Communications Democracy (ACD) and the National Association of Telecommunication Officers and Advisors (NCTA) in Case No. 17-1702 of the United States Supreme Court, Manhattan Community Access Corporation (d/b/a Manhattan Neighborhood Network, MNN) v. DeeDee Halleck and Jesus Papoleto […]
NY Law Journal: Public Forum Doctrine Extends to Public Access
FOR READING ONLY: This is the March 27, 2018 New York Law Journal’s analysis of the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals February 9, 2018 holding for the plaintiff, Dee Dee Halleck, community producer, that she was wrongly suspended from using Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s (MNN) facilities. The Court found that MNN was a […]
US Supreme Court Decision in MNN v Halleck
This is the opinion of the US Supreme Court in which the majority opinion, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, with dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan, ruled against public access producer Halleck, stating that “being regulated by the State does not make one a state actor.” The question was […]
ACM’s Comments in FCC MB Docket 05-311
This is the joint filing of the ACD, ACM, Cities of Bowie MD, Eugene OR, Palo Alto CA and Portland ME. This FCC Docket threatens to reduce PEG Access funding by changing the way certain in-kind services would be valued and then accounted against the franchise fee.
PEG Filings in Docket No. 05-311
These are the links to the FCC website where you’ll find the filings of PEG Access organizations, municipalities and allies in the FCC’s Media Bureau’s Docket No. 05-311, which will threaten to eliminate local franchising and how cable operators’ in-kind PEG services are accounted for purposes of calculating PEG revenues.
