IP: EchoStar Asks U.S. Supreme Court To Protect Rights of All Americans to Choose Their Network Channels

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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     EchoStar Asks U.S. Supreme Court To Protect Rights of All
     Americans to Choose Their Network Channels
     - Apr 2, 2002 04:04 PM (BusinessWire)

LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002--EchoStar
Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:DISH), through renowned
constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe, this week asked the United
States Supreme Court to protect the fundamental free speech right of
all Americans to choose the television programming they want to watch.

Current law provides that consumers can only have access to their
local network channels, and prohibits Americans from watching local
news and information originating from other areas of the country.
EchoStar believes this law violates the First Amendment to the United
States Constitution. In its filing, EchoStar asks the Supreme Court to
overturn a September 2001 ruling by the Court of Appeals for the
Eleventh Circuit which upheld the constitutionality of the statute at
issue. EchoStar believes that Americans have the right, under the
First Amendment, to watch satellite television programming of their
own choosing in the same way that Americans have the right to choose
the books or newspapers they read or the movies they watch.

http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=26692733



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