# A. v. Bamford v. Federal Communications Commission

> Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · May 6, 1976 · 535 F.2d 78

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9462707

## Case

- **Full name:** A. v. BAMFORD, Appellant, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- **Decided:** May 6, 1976
- **Citations:** 535 F.2d 78; 175 U.S. App. D.C. 250
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Van Pelt
- **Judges:** Van Pelt, Danaher, Leventhal, Van Pelt Nebraska
- **Cited by:** 18 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

VAN PELT, Senior District Judge
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent from the excellently written majority opinion which accurately reflects the issues and the evidence.
I cannot subscribe to the finding of the Review Board that Bamford had failed to interview leaders of the Spanish-American population group at Corpus Christi. The four Spanish-Americans interviewed, as shown by the majority opinion are “a judge, a city councilman, a pastor of a Roman Catholic Mexican-American church, and the county clerk who was also president of the Knights of Columbus.” I am unable to believe in a community in which Spanish-Americans constitute 35.7% to 48% of the population (see note 10, majority opinion) that for a Spanish-American to be elected a judge, city councilman, or a county clerk is *87 not prima facie evidence of his or her leadership. As to the approximately 18% of the population who are below the poverty level, I would feel critical of any survey of a poverty group in such a community which did not include a conference with a priest of a Roman Catholic Mexican-American church. I am not a member of that religious group but my experience teaches me that almost uniformly Catholic priests are well informed as to the poverty needs of their community.
I would sustain the petitioner’s request to reopen the record for the submission of new survey material.

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