Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc

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COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC., ET AL.

Docket 8512. Order, Mar. 15, 1965 Order denying respondent’s request to file a 200-page answering brief. Orpver Denyine Morion On January 25, 1965, the Commission issued an order granting respondents’ motion for an additional 2 months in which to file their answering brief. Considering at the same time respondents’ motion for leave to file an answering brief not exceeding 200 pages, the Commission granted leave to file a brief of 150 pages in length, including all appendices. Respondents have now renewed their request that they be granted leave to file an answering brief not exceeding 200 pages in length and they request that the filing date be further extended to May 19, 1965. The sole reason given by respondents for requiring a 200-page answering brief is that it is necessary to answer in detail what they regard as “the appeal brief’s distortions of the record.” The Commission is of the view that the authorization heretofore granted respondents should enable them to make a clear and complete presentation of the issues of the case and that they have failed to demonstrate the “reasonableness and necessity” of filing a brief so greatly in excess of the limit set. forth in Section 3.22(e) of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure. Shuiton, Inc.,

Docket No. 7721, order issued February 14, 1964. Since respondents’ accompanying motion for an extension of time until May 19, 1965, has been premised entirely upon the ground that additional time would be needed to prepare a brief of 200 pages in length, denial of the latter motion also requires a denial of the former. Accordingly, It ts ordered, That respondents’ motion be, and it hereby is, denied in all respects.

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