Battle between Disney and the FCC moves to the courts

For months, the Walt Disney Company and President Trump’s Federal Communications Commission have traded accusations in a battle over the company’s free speech rights and its local broadcast stations.

Now they are taking their conflict to federal court.

On Tuesday morning, Disney lawyers are expected to ask a judge in U.S. District Court in Washington to prevent the F.C.C. from undertaking an unusual, early review of the broadcast licenses of the eight stations the company owns and operates. Disney, which owns ABC, has called the review — and possible revocation — of the licenses an existential threat to its operations and an “extraordinary assault” on its First Amendment rights.

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