Fists are flying again in the battle between satellite and cable TV providers. But this time, top constitutional scholars are gloving up as well.
The scholars contend that several states’ preferential treatment of cable customers violates the U.S. Constitution. Sixteen constitutional experts—including former U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr, now dean of Pepperdine University School of Law, and Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and author of a leading constitutional treatise—have intervened in a legal fight over whether satellite customers can be taxed while cable consumers go tax-free or are taxed at lower levels. The practice has triggered lawsuits in Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee.
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