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A broadcast licence is the federal authorisation a television station must hold to legally transmit over public airwaves.
Disney filed suit against the Trump administration, arguing that the Federal Communications Commission triggered a review of ABC's licence not on any lawful regulatory ground but because the agency disapproves of what ABC broadcasts.
Disney, the US media company that owns ABC, called the action retaliatory.
What a retaliatory claim means against a federal regulator Retaliatory is a legal argument, and it carries specific weight when directed at a government licensing body.
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