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 | | SHAPIRO At the end of the session last week, we were talking about the Lompoc case which was the first major case that I worked on, and the fact that the settlement agreement there involved payment, or a broadcaster obtaining the financial interest in, the cable operation there. |
 | | SHAPIRO There was another case out in San Diego where an existing cable system was seeking to expand and somebody went for a stay to prevent their expansion and suddenly that case was decided and it was in the Supreme Court before there was a decision in Midwest Video vs. the FCC. |
 | | SHAPIRO Max, I don't think it was a wrong judgement at the time, but my personal view, and again we'll come to this as we go along, but the change in the nature of the cable industry came with the introduction of the satellite... |
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