Playboy, Graff plan Supreme Court appeal. (to block cable television scrambling regulations)

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 1996 by McConnell, Chris

Companies hope to block new cable scrambling rules Playboy Entertainment Group and Graff Pay-Per-View are now looking to the Supreme Court for shelter from new cable scrambling rules after a Delaware court ruled against them. The two companies last week were preparing Supreme Court challenges after the U.S.

District Court in Delaware issued a Nov. 8 ruling denying their request to keep the scrambling rules from taking effect. "Playboy and Graff have failed to meet the preliminary injunction test," U.S. Circuit Judge Jane Roth wrote in the court's decision. "They have not persuaded us that they are likely to prevail on the merits [of their challenge]." Mandated by the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the scrambling provisions require cable...

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