The procedures adopted in the FCC joint protective order in the...
The procedures adopted in the FCC joint protective order in the proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger docket give appropriate access to the public while protecting competitively sensitive information from improper disclosure, and the procedures thereby serve the public interest, the…
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FCC Media Bureau said Friday. By designating documents and information as confidential or highly confidential under the order, a submitting party will be deemed to have submitted a request that the material “not be made routinely available for public inspection under the commission’s rules,” the FCC said in a joint protective order (http://bit.ly/1ea0xtI). Any person wishing to challenge the designation of a document as confidential or highly confidential must file such a challenge at the commission and serve it on the submitting party, it said. Persons obtaining access to confidential and highly confidential information under the protective order shall use the information solely for the preparation and conduct of this proceeding before the FCC “and any subsequent judicial proceeding arising directly from this proceeding ... shall not use such documents or information for any other purpose,” it said.