Only about 12 inspection stations filed paper forms created for the same purpose, she said.
The Associated Press, the Enquirer, and four local news stations filed a joint lawsuit against Deters, claiming that his office was in defiance of Ohio's open-records laws.
TOKHEIM CORP., Fort Wayne, Ind., a maker of pay-at-the-pump terminals for gas stations, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time since 2000.
Tribune, which publishes The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times and operates several television stations, filed for bankruptcy in December 2008, less than a year after the company was acquired by Mr. Zell, the Chicago real estate tycoon, for $8.2 billion.
The same day that Banzhaf made his appeal to the conference, the National Association of Broadcasters, in association with one of its member stations, filed its own petition for review of the F.C.C. decision.
Sinclair, joined by 250 other television stations, filed a petition in October asking the F.C.C. to revise the standard so that stations could choose to use a transmission technology that is being used in Europe and that had shown in tests by Sinclair that it worked better in many circumstances.
Last fall Hearst, the big media company that owns newspapers, magazines and television stations, filed a lawsuit against the Texas governor's office, seeking access to a clemency report in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in 2004 but whose guilt is now in doubt.
Mr. Stoddart said that there is "no chance" that Virgin Rail could successfully sell shares to the public, because investors have soured on the sector after losing billions of dollars when Railtrack, the company that owns Britain's tracks and stations, filed for the British equivalent of bankruptcy protection earlier this year.
Shops and petrol stations file cases to prevent competitors from opening up.
