Breyer gives initial hint of his must-carry views. (Supreme Court nominee Steven G. Breyer; must carry rules)

Multichannel News, July, 1994 by Hearn, Ted

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Steven G. Breyer's views on must-carry are not a total mystery. Four months before President Clinton announced the appointment of the Boston federal appeals court judge, Breyer participated in a University of Pennsylvania "moot court" session in which law school students argued the cable-broadcast case before Breyer and two other federal judges.

C-SPAN taped the session and aired it over the Fourth of July weekend. While Breyer did not disclose whether he thought must-carry was constitutional, he did say he thought the issue provoked new questions that needed to be addressed by the courts, particularly when Congress decides to impose restrictions on a new technology to abet an incumbent technology. In the 1992...

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