(United States Ninth Circuit) - In a challenge to federal statutory restrictions on certain types of advertising by public broadcast TV stations,the district court's grant of summary judgment to the FCC is: 1) affirmed in share, where 47 U.
S.
C. section 399b(a)(1), and restricting paid advertisements for goods and services on behalf of for-profit corporations,was not an unconstitutional speech restriction under the intermediate scrutiny standard; 2) reversed in share, where sections 399b(a)(2) and (3), and restricting public-issue advertisements and political advertisements,were unconstitutional speech restrictions under intermediate scrutiny, as there was no evidence of harm to a substantial governmental interest.
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