On Tuesday, NCTA filed a Petition for Stay pending its appeal of an order of the FCC entitled Exclusive Service Contracts for Provision of Video Services in Multiple Dwelling Units and Other Real Estate Developments.

As described in the Multichannel News article by Ted Hearn:

NCTA sought a stay in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on one key issue: the FCC’s decision to apply the ban to existing contracts, not just to future deals, between cable operators and the owners of multiple dwelling units (MDUs.).

You can find NCTA’s filing on our website. There’s another article on this action at Light Reading. And you can read the Oct. 29 article in the NY Times that kicked this whole thing off: F.C.C. Set to End Sole Cable Deals for Apartments.

UPDATE: Apartment owners appeal FCC decision banning exclusive cable contracts.

Now the National Multi Housing Council and National Apartment Association who represent the owners of many of these buildings are challenging the ruling in the U.S. District Court of Appeals’ District of Columbia division. The complaint alleges that the ruling exceeds FCC authority and is “arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion, unsupported by substantial evidence.”

And a Dow Jones story on NCTA’s filing as well.