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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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The Associated Press appeals to the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling requiring changes to its membership laws, arguing against treating news agencies as public utilities in an ongoing anti-trust suit by the government.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 23. -(AP) News gathering agencies are not public utilities and should not be made such by judicial action, the Associated Press said today, in asking the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling.
The lower court ruled that AP must change its membership laws and submitted a brief in appeal to the decision by the special federal three-judge court in the southern district of New York.
The appeal states that the appeal is so grave a step such as transferring the press from the field of private enterprise to the status of a regulated public utility is the last thing the courts should attempt to do, as long as any alternative exists.
The appeal is the latest development in the government's civil suit under the anti-trust act, to force the AP into a cooperative non-profit organization, and to change its membership structure, in order to make news reports available to all applicants.
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Washington, D. C.
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Oct. 23.
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The Associated Press asked the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that AP must change its membership laws, arguing that news gathering agencies are not public utilities and should not be made such by judicial action. This appeal is part of the government's civil suit under the anti-trust act to force AP into a cooperative non-profit organization and change its membership structure to make news reports available to all applicants.